Dozens are believed trapped in ruined Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto, in mountainous central Italy.
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According to the department, majority of the deaths occurred in Rieti province with 190 victims and 57 in neighbouring Ascoli Piceno province, the BBC reported.
“It’s the only thing of mine here”, she said.
As the search effort continued, the soul-searching began.
A powerful aftershock with a preliminary magnitude of 4.3 was reported in Italy, causing additional damage one day after earthquakes almost leveled a town – and resulted in more than 240 deaths.
Inhabitants of the four worst-hit small towns rise by as much as tenfold in the summer, and many of those killed or missing were visitors. She grabbed her 4-year-old son, wrapped him for warmth and the family escaped through the balcony.
“We’re still in a phase that allows us to hope we’ll find people alive”, Cari said, noting that in the 2009 quake in nearby L’Aquila a survivor was pulled out after 72 hours.
I will remember till the end of my life. the evil murmur of moving walls.
Valentina Gianni, a 16-year-old among them, said the teenagers had worked all through the night. “Half the town no longer exists”, its Mayor, Sergio Piorizzi, said despairingly.
-This item has been corrected to show that the woman’s surname is Szwaja, not Szwajak.
Media reports say some 8,000 Romanians live in the area in central Italy where the quake struck early Wednesday.
Major quakes in Italy are often followed by criminal charges being filed against architects, builders and officials responsible for public works if the buildings crumble.
Reuters Thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed.
Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said at least 460 aftershocks had shaken the region since the original quake. “We have a community of 50 people here, we have one life lost and seven others wounded, who are in hospitals in Rome and other cities”, Bitri said during an interview on Wednesday evening with Top Channel television.
The ministry said that it could give no further details regarding the victim.
A man cries Wednesday while rescuers help an injured man in earthquake-devastated Amatrice in central Italy.
The toll was likely to rise as crews reached homes in more remote hamlets where the scenes were apocalyptic “like Dante’s Inferno”, according to one witness.
Another investigation was opened into why Amatrice’s school had collapsed, despite the fact it had only opened in 2012 and was meant to have been earthquake-proof.
The powerful quake was felt across a broad area.
A rescuer walks by destroyed houses in Pescara del Tronto on August 25, 2016, a day after a 6.2-magnitude quake struck the region killing some 247 people.
Residents in central Italy were jolted awake by a strong aftershock. The latest temblor struck at about 5:40 am Thursday.
At least 120 people have been killed and dozens more are missing after a powerful natural disaster struck central Italy, reducing ancient towns to rubble.
The civil protection agency set up tent cities around the affected towns to accommodate the homeless, 1,200 of whom took advantage of the offer to spend the night, civil protection officials said Thursday.
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“We saw unfortunately only bodies pulled out”, CNN contributor Barbie Nadeau said from the village, where 22 people were killed.
