Feared Peruvian gangland hitman is gunned down at point-blank range by rival assassin while waiting for a trim at his barber shop

Barrero raised his hands after the first round missed, but the second hit him in the skull

A drugs gang hitman was gunned down in a shocking assassination as he waited to have his hair cut in a barber shop.

Victim Oscar Martin Mendoza Barrero had been checking his phone at the hairdressers in Callao, Argentina, when he was shot in the head.

CCTV footage of the slaying shows Barrero sitting on a bench waiting for his turn on the barber's chair.

Feared Peruvian hit man Oscar Martin Mendoza Barrero, pictured sitting on the bench, was awaiting a hair cut at a barber shop in Callao, Argentina

A gunman approached Barrero from Behind and opened fire at point blank range

But as he looks down at his smartphone, an assassin wearing a motorcycle helmet and armed with a handgun walks in through the door behind him.

Astonishingly, his first shot - at point blank range - misses Barrero, who ducks and throws both arms up behind his head.