Fatal bombing outside Italian school

ROME -- A bomb exploded Saturday outside an Italian high school, killing one student and wounding at least seven others, officials said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The device went off a few minutes before 8 a.m. in the Adriatic port town of Brindisi just as students milled outside getting ready for class at the mainly all-girls Francesca Laura Morvillo Falcone vocational institute.

The student killed was Melissa Bassi, 16, said Franco Scoditti, the mayor of the nearby town of Mesagne. She died of her wounds at a hospital, said Brindisi civil protection agency official Fabiano Amati.

Amati said at least seven students were hospitalized, but some news reports put the figure at 10.