Releasing the new confirmed death toll, Immacolata Postiglione, head of the Civil Protection agency’s emergency unit, indicated there had been no survivors found overnight in any of the remote mountain villages devastated by Wednesday’s powerful pre-dawn quake.
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Italy’s civil protection agency coordinated the rescue operation in Rome, just 93 miles away from where the natural disaster struck.
There are no missing person in the Marche region, however, at least 15 people are still missing in the nearly flattened town Amatrice, Mayor Sergio Pirozzi said Friday in an interview.
Rescue teams in central Italy pressed on for a third day.still trying to find people trapped underneath the rubble.
“We have removed the last bodies that we knew about”, said Paolo Cortelli, a member of the Alpine Rescue national service who helped to recover about 30 bodies from Pescara del Tronto.
Coffins of some of the victims of the quake in central Italy are seen inside a gym in Ascoli Piceno, August 26, 2016.
Flags will fly at half-staff Saturday on all public offices and a state funeral will be celebrated by a bishop in a gym in Ascoli Piceno for the victims of nearby Arquata del Tronto.
The civil protection department in Rome said almost 400 people were being treated for injuries in hospitals, 40 of them in critical condition.
More than 900 aftershocks have rattled the region since Wednesday’s quake, which had a magnitude of 6.0-6.2 and triggered the collapse of hundreds of old buildings across dozens of tiny communities playing host to far more people than usual because of the summer holidays.
One, Davanti Enoteca in Chicago produced a special weekend menu featuring bucatini all’amatriciana with an accompanying text that said: “Our hearts go out to the people of Amatrice, Italy, whose community was devastated by a tragic natural disaster earlier this week”.
Mattarella arrived by helicopter to the edge of Amatrice and was guided around by the mayor, Sergio Pirozzi, who showed him the extent of the damage.
“Brooklyn is one of the most diverse places in the world, but right now, we’re all Italian”. He said that the country needs beefed up efforts to tackle with earthquakes that continue to hit the country sporadically.
The first funerals were held Friday in Pomezia, south of Rome, home of six of the victims, including an eight-year-old boy. With each passing hour signs are not good that more people will be pulled out alive.
Romania’s foreign ministry says eight Romanians have died and 21 Romanians are still missing in the Italian quake.
Romania’s foreign ministry says six Romanians have died and 17 Romanians are still missing in the Italian quake. I am convinced that Amatrice will rise again. “We owe it to the people who died here”.
“I have no idea what I’m going to do now, because I had renovated the house two years ago”, survivor Umberto Palaferri said, showing a photo of his collapsed home on his phone.
Mr Johnson said extra staff had been sent to the region to help provide support to Britons affected by the “terrible” quake, while the G overnment has offered “any assistance that we can” to the Italian authorities.
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Thousands of people in the town have been rendered homeless and could live in the tents for weeks.
