Three Italian police killed in apparently deliberate farmhouse explosion during eviction attempt

Three members of Italy’s military police, the carabinieri, were killed and another 13 officers injured in an explosion as law enforcement attempted to carry out an eviction near the northeastern city of Verona, authorities said on Tuesday.

Two middle-aged brothers and their sister were detained in connection to the blast in the town of Castel d’Azzano, 10 kilometres southwest of Verona, police said.

“While our carabinieri were carrying out a judicial order, they were hit by an intentional explosion of a gas tank,’” Verona’s carabinieri commander, Colonel Claudio Pagano, told the TV news channel, Sky TG24.

He called it “an absolutely crazy gesture.”

The two-storey farmhouse had been filled with gas and the explosion was set off when authorities opened the door, regional governor Luca Zaia told Sky TG24.

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