ITALY HIT BY MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE 6.2 MAGNITUDE IN CENTRAL ROME

ITALY AGAIN HIT BY EARTHQUAKE


 

A massive earthquack of  6.2 quake has struck focal Italy, leaving no less than 38 individuals dead and 150 missing, as rescuers quest for survivors. A significant number of the dead were in Accumoli, near the epicenter, and a short separation away in Amatrice, which was to a great extent diminished to rubble. The town of Pescara del Tronto was leveled to the ground and the quantity of dead was relied upon to rise.

The shake hit at 03:36 (01:36 GMT), 100km (65 miles) north-east of Rome. Executive Matteo Renzi paid tribute to the volunteers and common resistance authorities who had hurried to the scene amidst the night and utilized their uncovered hands to burrow for survivors,

Local authorities were unsure of the full extent of casualties but 28 deaths were reported in Accumoli and Amatrice.

Eleven people were reported dead including children in the neighbouring villages of Pescara del Tronto and Arquata del Tronto.

An elderly couple and a boy were among the victims there while 20 people have been taken to hospital. Two boys aged four and seven were pulled alive from the rubble of the house they had been staying in with their grandmother, Ansa news agency reports. Rescuers said they had been sheltering under a bed.

Rescuers were still trying to reach the remote village of Peracchia di Acqua Santa Terme a few kilometres to the east.

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