Brit teens on first lads' holiday forced to flee after Mafia gunmen open fire at Bulgaria beach bar

A group of British teens on their first holiday abroad were forced to flee for their lives after gunmen opened fire at a Bulgarian beach bar.

Ross Warbeck, Joel Ewart, Nathan Smith, Craig Pool and Jack Adams were in the 4you pub in Sunny Beach on Wednesday night when five masked gangsters entered.

Wielding pistols, the gunmen peppered the inside of the premises with bullets, prompting the terrified lads to sprint away from the scene.

The Mafia shoot-out left one man dead and at least two others seriously injured, the Daily Record reports.

The teens, from Dumfriesshire, Scotland, escaped unharmed.

However, the Bulgarian press yesterday reported that an underworld boss was critically injured and one of his bodyguards was killed in the incident which happened just before 9pm local time.

Seventeen-year-old Ross of Chapelknowe, near Gretna, told the Standard: “Nathan noticed five men in ski masks running into the bar and then the shooting started.

“It was totally surreal and I still can’t believe it even happened, let alone so close to us as we were right by the shooters, they were just 10 feet away from us.

“We all ran out of the bar by jumping over the low wall surrounding the pub and when we looked back we could see that about 10 more unmasked men were outside shooting into the bar and a gunfight happened for about a minute before they all ran off in different directions.”

[link to www.mirror.co.uk]