UPDATE: |Gunmen shoot dead Brit, 30, in Costa Del Sol after waiting for football match to end News

The victim, 30, said to be from the North West, died after he left a tennis club in Calahonda

A man believed to be from Britain has been killed in a Costa del Sol street shooting.

Police were last night hunting the killer, who is thought to have fled the crime scene in a getaway car later found torched nearby.

The murder happened around 8.15pm on Monday in the popular holiday resort of Calahonda between Marbella and Fuengirola.

The victim was already dead by the time police and paramedics reached the scene.

Residents told they heard heard between eight and ten shots being fired.

The incident has been described as a gunfight. A Cupra vehicle with foreign registration plates was found burned out nearby shortly afterwards. Insiders said weapons had been found inside.

Investigators are working on the theory it was the getaway car and was set on fire by the assassin and possible accomplices.

Police have not yet officially confirmed the nationality of the victim, partly because the post-mortem has not taken place.

But well-placed sources close to the ongoing investigation described him last night as a 30-year-old from Liverpool.

The murder is being investigated by the Guardia Civil, Spain’s police.

Following last night’s fatal shooting, sources close to the ongoing investigation said they believed the victim’s killers waited for him to finish a game of football before targeting him.

The murder happened in a street called Don Jose de Orbaneja Street, where there is a well-known tennis and padel tennis club called Club del Sol as well as a neighbouring holiday resort called Finca Naundrup which has sports facilities.

Police put the area on lockdown after the shooting.

Last week, in a separate incident, a 34-year-old man was taken to the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella after being shot outside a nightclub in the famous Costa del Sol resort.

The incident happened around 4.30am on Good Friday. Witnesses said the suspect fled the scene in a getaway vehicle. The victim was hospitalized after suffering a gunshot wound to the shoulder. No arrests are yet believed to have taken place.