1 dead,7 injured in blast at Italy school

A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school named after a slain anti-Mafia prosecutor,killing a teenage girl and wounding several other classmates,officials said.

The device went off a few minutes before 8 am in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi in the countrys south just as students milled outside the Morvillo-Falcone vocational institute.

The school is named in honor of prosecutor Giovanni Falcone and his wife,Francesca Morvillo,a judge.

The victim was identified as 16-year-old Melissa Bassi,the towns mayor Franco Scoditti said. Officials said at least seven were injured,but some news reports put the figure at 10.