President Sergio Mattarella and Premier Giorgia Meloni will attend the State funeral of three Carabinieri police officers who were killed in a gas-canister trap explosion during an eviction near Verona Tuesday at Padua's Basilica of Santa Giustina on Friday.

The three officers - Marco Piffari, Davide Bernardello and Valerio Daprà - died in the explosion in a farmhouse at Castel D'Azzano.

The government has declared a day of national mourning for the funeral.