Police and rescuers work after a blast near a school in Brindisi, Italy
By the CNN Wire Staff updated 10:32 AM EDT, Sat May 19, 2012
Blast outside school in Italy kills at least 1, several wounded
Rome (CNN) -- At least one girl has died and half a dozen are injured following a bomb blast outside a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, Italian officials said Saturday.
Officials have given conflicting accounts of the number killed and injured.
Daniela Buccoliero, an official at the Prefecture of Brindisi, a local office of the Interior Ministry, told CNN one 16-year-old girl had died and another six students are injured, two of them seriously.
Brindisi Mayor Mimmo Consales and Fabiano Amati, regional minister for Italy's Civil Protection agency, said there had been two deaths as a result of the blast.
Amati said the scene shortly after the explosion was "dramatic."
"There were school back packs and notebooks everywhere. Many windows of the nearby buildings were broken," he told CNN.
Amati said the police had found three gas cylinders at the site that were detonated with a remote control.
The device was concealed behind a trash can by a wall 50 meters from the entrance of the school, he said.
"It's an attack on all Italians because schools are considered a secure area," Amati said. "It's the first time in our country that a school is under attack."
Consales told CNN one of the girls had died in surgery from the wounds she sustained in the blast.
Another of the injured is in a very serious condition, he said.
Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti said the government was determined to combat crime and unite the country.
He expressed the government's "deep sorrow, dismay and outrage" at what he called a "most grave and heinous crime" in a statement from the United States, where he is attending the G8 summit.
Monti was informed of the blast during the night, the statement said, and has been in close contact with Italy's president, interior minister and other local authorities since.
He has ordered the country's flag to be displayed at half-mast Saturday and for the next three days, and sent a message of condolence to those directly affected by the blast.
The explosion occurred early Saturday as students were arriving at the school, which offers vocational training, Italy's ANSA news agency reported.
It is not yet clear why the school was targeted or who carried out the attack.
Police chief Francesco Cirillo told CNN that the motive for the bomb is under investigation and that no one has claimed responsibility.
Nichi Vendola, governor of the Puglia region where Brindisi is situated, said: "It could be either a mafia or a political terrorism attack. It's too early to say. It's an unprecedented event."
The Francesca Morvillo Falcone school is named after the wife of a prominent anti-mafia judge, which has fueled speculation that the organized crime group might be behind it. It is 20 years since Falcone was assassinated in Palermo, Sicily, in May 1992.
The school is located near both the tribunal and the city's tax collection agency.
Italy's tax collection agencies, called Equitalia, have been targeted by mail bombs, Molotov cocktails and suicides in front of their offices in recent months, with the incidents occurring in the cities of Rome, Livorno and Bologna, respectively.
Italy's interior ministry said this week that it would start to deploy soldiers outside some government buildings because of the current tensions.
The local anti-racket commission of Mesagne, a town in Brindisi province, issued a warning last week of heightened threats by both organized crime groups and anarchists against government agencies.
An anti-mafia march that scheduled for Sunday will go ahead as scheduled.
Journalists Livia Borghese and Barbie Nadeau and CNN's Joseph Netto contributed to this report.
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Death & Destruction is spreading around the World
In the 1980s, to hear of a explosion of any kind would bring great attention to the people who could have possibly been harmed. The Astonishment that a bomb would have been planted by any human being would have been the response of all.
In the 90s, the massacres in Africa & Bosnia were known but not televised for the world to see, thus, the response to the atrocities were minimum, even as lives were being mutilated by dictators and racial cleansing. CNN and other media were not able to access the atrocities but, after Bush decided to take the world to war, the streaming of war type acts and actions became a daily event broadcasted around the world.
The Desensitization of the psychological affects of viewing blasts that destroy property and lives is a factual affect of the reasoning for the blowing up schools and killing the lives of children.
8 Years of daily televised decapitation resulting from car bombs, suicide bombs, assassinations, and blatant murders were televised by CNN during the Iraqi War, for all the world to see. The Visual Affect of seeing dead bodies daily, for the past decade has allowed the minds of normal people to react with less appallment.
The Escalation of suicide bombings, small groups of people attacking with viciousness and heartlessness, killing all within sight, has become common place and the degree to which these vicious attacks are taking place, and where they are taking place, have become more and more horrific.
The Affects of visually viewing acts and actions of others around the world directly affect the acts and actions of everyone around the world.
The Best Example of visual affects on the emotions or thoughts of others is "The Arab Spring", in that, it took Arab citizens around the world, actually viewing what "democracy" can create and how democracy can allow a former possible slave to become a leader of the greatest country in the existing world, by the election of America's first Black President
The Arab Spring resulted in the recognition of others life styles causing the Arab citizens to demand equal style lives, and even as we speak, Syrians are being murdered daily to live the life of freedom..., all because of what technology brought to their finger tips.
These Planted Bombs in Italy, is the results of the behavior that these sick minds have been viewing on t. v. for the past 10 years, and these sick minds want to make their mark on society as well.
Children are no longer considered off limits by terrorist, woman and property are also considered valuable targets.
The Desensitizing of the world started with the Bush Administrations attack on Iraq, and the continued display of Syrian violence only ensures that the weak minds will take more action against even more vulnerable and innocent people.
Currently, the Former Liberian Leader Charles Taylor has recently been convicted of war crimes, and his contention was that he did nothing any different than what Bush did and yet he is being tried and not Bush.
The only way to correct the rise in the viciousness of small attacks against the most vulnerable of all humans around the world is to actually clean the riff raff from the top down, people like former president Bush need to be held accountable first, then, Syria's Al-Assad must be held accountable.
Allowing the top heavy people to get away with crimes while the poor are being abused by law enforcement around the world, ensures that the poor will be the ones who take these types of egregious acts and actions against any and all around the world.
The Psychological Effect of visually viewing murders and destruction has cause the further escalation of crimes against the weak, and these types of crimes will continue until we reverse our direction.
In My Opinion
ASMFMB
5/19/2012
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