Three members of the same family are dead after a fire broke out overnight at their home in the town of Sottomarina di Chioggia, near Venice.
The victims were named as 64-year-old Gianni Boscolo Scarmanati, his wife Luisella Veronese 59, and their 27-year-old son Davide.
The three were sleeping upstairs in the house and are thought to have died of smoke inhalation after the blaze gripped the groundfloor.
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