Blast kills three police officers trying to evict siblings from house in Italy
Gas canisters were set off when the carabinieri entered the property near Verona in northern Italy.
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The blast was triggered as police and firefighters went into the house near Verona to carry out an eviction order for two brothers and a sister in their late 50s and mid-60s.
The three victims who died were members of the Carabinieri military police.
A man and a woman were arrested at the scene and another man who fled after the explosion was located soon after. All three have been taken to hospital.
The blast could be heard some 5km (3 miles) away and images from the scene showed the building reduced to a pile of rubble.
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