JAKARTA - Three fans of the Italian basketball team were arrested for throwing stones at a bus carrying supporters of the opposing team that killed one person.

The death of Raffaele Marianella, 65, has shocked Italians who are accustomed to violence linked to football fans.

Reported by Reuters, Tuesday, October 21, Marianella was a co-driver on the bus and was not behind the wheel when the bus was bombarded with stones and bricks while transporting fans of the 2000 Pistoia Basketball team home after Sunday's match against RSR Sebastiani Rieti in Serie A2, the caste of the two sports in Italy.

He died after being hit by a large rock that penetrated the windshield.

The three suspects, who are now being held in prison, are members of the RSR fan "ultra" group Sebastiani Rieti, police said in Rieti.

They were tracked after police escorting fan buses on the outskirts of Rieti in Italy stopped a car carrying another group away from the scene.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the attack as "an unacceptable and unreasonable act of violence."


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