Two students killed, 6 hurt in blast near high school in south Italy

Device in a trash bin detonates in Adriatic town of Brindisi

ROME (AP) — An official says two students have been killed and six others have been wounded by the explosion of a device in a trash bin outside their vocational high school in southern Italy.

The device went off just before 8 a.m. in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi just as students were arriving for class Saturday.

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Local civil protection official Fabiano Amati said the first casualty was a female student who died of her wounds after being taken to a hospital. The seven other students were hospitalized, and one of them also died from their injuries.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.

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