(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 17 - Bologna Mayor Matteo Lepore on Tuesday awarded the Turrita d'argento prize to Paolo Bolognesi, Daria Bonifetti and Rosanna Rossi Zecchi, the historic leaders of the associations representing the families of victims of three of the most painful moments in Italian and local history - the 1980 Bologna station bombing, the Ustica air crash and the Uno Bianca massacres between the end of the 1980s and 1994.
    The August 2 1980 bombing of the Bologna train station killed 85 people.
    Staged by right-wing extremists, it was Italy's worst terrorist attack since World War II.
    On 27 June 1980, a Bologna-Palermo flight by the now-defunct Itavia airline fell into the Tyrrhenian Sea between the islands of Ponza and Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The Uno Bianca criminal group in the Emilia Romagna region around Bologna and in the Marche killed 24 people and wounded over 100 others between 1987 and 1994. (ANSA).