Rome: Two 16-year-old schoolgirls were killed and several others injured on Saturday in a remote-controlled bomb blast outside a vocational training school in southern Italy, media reports said.
The bombing took place around 8 am in Brindisi in Puglia region, as the students were entering the school building, Xinhua reported citing Rai television. At least seven students were injured.
Fabiano Amati, a regional minister, said the scene after the blast was "dramatic".
"There were school back-packs and notebooks everywhere. Many windows of the nearby buildings were broken," he told CNN.
Rome: Two 16-year-old schoolgirls were killed and several others injured on Saturday in a remote-controlled bomb blast outside a vocational training school in southern Italy, media reports said.
The bombing took place around 8 am in Brindisi in Puglia region, as the students were entering the school building, Xinhua reported citing Rai television. At least seven students were injured.
Fabiano Amati, a regional minister, said the scene after the blast was "dramatic".
"There were school back-packs and notebooks everywhere. Many windows of the nearby buildings were broken," he told CNN.
The Francesca Morvillo Falcone school is named after the wife of prominent anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, who was killed in a bomb attack in 1992.
The government recently announced a plan to increase counter-terrorism intelligence, saying 14,000 sites in the country were currently considered potential targets.
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