As rescue workers carried away the body of the infant, carefully covered by a small blanket, the children’s grandmother blamed God.
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“We didn’t see any happy stories here”, she added.
Firefighters’ spokesman Luca Cari said one body had been pulled out of the hotel rubble just before dawn after five were extracted earlier but searches continued there and elsewhere.
The number of people killed in the natural disaster that devastated parts of central Italy yesterday has risen to 247.
After checking in with them Wednesday morning, she said everyone seems to be safe.
While most of Winnipeg’s Italian community, which Audino estimated was close to 20,000, hails from southern Italy, rather than the central region where the quake hit, Joe Grande, owner of Mona Lisa Ristorante, said Winnipeggers are shaken. I was miraculously rescued by the emergency services.
Nadeau and her crew narrowly escaped injury when a home collapsed behind her in Saletta as she did a Facebook Live session. Aerial photographs showed whole areas of Amatrice, previous year voted one of Italy’s most attractive historic towns, flattened by the quake.
Some 264 of the wounded have been hospitalized.
Rescue teams used bulldozers and often their bare hands to find survivors, while thousands of people spent the night outside or in tents. He announced a new initiative, “Italian Homes”, to answer years of criticism over shoddy construction across the country, which has the highest seismic hazard in Western Europe.
Premier Matteo Renzi, visiting the quake-affected zone Wednesday, promised to rebuild “and guarantee a reconstruction that will allow residents to live in these communities, to relaunch these lovely towns that have a wonderful past that will never end”.
“In hard times, Italy knows what to do”, he said.
Much of the houses in the area – unreinforced brick or concrete frame buildings – were vulnerable to earthquakes, according to the US Geological Survey, and offered little resistance to the powerful temblor.
Italy is no stranger to deadly quakes.
Italy’s civil protection agency reported the death toll had risen to nearly 250 early today, with at least 264 others hospitalised.
The pop superstar, real name Stefani Germanotta, was among the celebrities expressing their heartbreak on social media after waking up to learn a 6.2 magnitude tremor had rocked the mountainous and historic town of Amatrice and nearby Accumoli in central Italy.
The news agency ANSA reported that the toddler, Marisol Piermarini, was sleeping in her bed in the family’s vacation home in Arquata del Tronto when the quake struck early Wednesday.
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Amatrice is known for its traditional all’amatriciana pasta sauce, and was gearing up to hold a festival celebrating the recipe this weekend, reports said.
