ead local media reports that the man, named only as Eduard D, was linked to the powerful Bratislava underworld. Peter Ondera, an interior ministry spokesman, said a 10 kg bomb had been planted under the pavement leading from the tennis courts, where the victim had been playing, to a car park. The explosion was so powerful it had left a crater two metres deep and five metres wide. Former communist Slovakia has been plagued by a series of car bomb attacks in recent years mainly centred on power struggles between rival mafia gangs.