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BUS-STOP MOB HIT

A hotheaded mob soldier under investigation by the feds was whacked execution-style yesterday as he stood at a bus stop in a deserted section of Staten Island.

The shooter pumped seven bullets into Anthony Seccafico, 46, a reputed member of the Bonanno crime family, at around 4:30 a.m. in Arden Heights as he waited to go to his Manhattan construction job.

“I heard, Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!” said a neighbor on Ilyssa Way, who asked not to be named. “We thought it was fireworks.”

Sources said that the victim, who became a made man after the Bonanno family was gutted by federal convictions, recognized his killer and tried to make a run for it.

Killing a made man is historically forbidden in the Mafia unless it is sanctioned by higher-ups in the family, sparking fears that a gang war may erupt.

The 37-year-old witness said she saw the shooter fleeing the scene of the rub-out shortly after she heard the shots.

Moments later, the witness spotted Seccafico, a married father of young twins, lying face-up in the street in a pool of blood.

Seccafico, who served three years starting in 1985 for criminal sale of a controlled substance, was rushed to Staten Island University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Law-enforcement sources said the victim started his mob career as an enforcer in the West Village for Genovese capo Eddie “The Blonde” Falco. He was later dumped because he was a loose cannon.

His “short fuse” may have helped get him killed, a source said.

“I always knew he was a head case,” said the source. “There’s always a guy you’re not surprised [gets killed].”

After he was booted from the Genovese clan, Seccafico, whose father went by the nickname “Tony Smash,” “got hooked up . . . with the Bonannos running gambling rooms for them,” a source said.

He was indicted in 2002, along with 19 other members of Patrick “Fat Patsy” DeFilippo’s crew, for helping collect debts for a $2.5 million-a-year gambling and loan-sharking operation.

Sources said that Seccafico, 5-foot-5 and stocky, may have been killed also because he was under investigation again.

Neighbors portrayed him as a hardworking dad who helped out when he could.

“Oh, my God!” said a shocked Mona Gaber. “I’m so sad. He’s such a nice guy!”

murray.weiss@nypost.com