Three injured in Italian church explosion: report

Trevigno, Italy - Three people were injured Sunday in an explosion at a church near the northern town of Trevigiano, the ANSA news agency reported, saying it could be the latest in a series of blasts linked to the so-called "Italian Unabomber".

The news agency said the blast occurred around noon in a church in Motta di Livenza, north of Venice, but did not elaborate.

The last attack blamed on the Italian Unabomber was in late January, when a booby-trapped plastic Easter egg container exploded in a street in the nearby town of Treviso.

A group of children on a school outing narrowly escaped injury when one of them kicked the container, setting off the explosive device.

The anonymous bomber has terrorized Italy's northwest with a series of explosions, mainly involving booby-trapped consumer items in supermarkets, for over a decade, wounding several people.

The American Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski, who killed three people and injured 23 through booby-trapped letters, is serving life in prison without parole.