In one of the biggest anti-Mafia trials in recent years, a court in Italy has sentenced twenty-four gangsters to prison sentences ranging from twelve years to life.

They were convicted for their part in a series of bomb attacks five years ago which killed ten people and badly damaged several historic buildings, including the Uffizi art gallery in Florence and two churches in Rome.

Life sentences were given to fourteen of the accused, including three alleged Mafia bosses.

One of them Bernardo Provenzanois still on the run, and was convicted in his absence.

The prosecution said the bombings were an act of revenge for the arrest of other Mafia bosses.