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                                                                                                                          August 25, 2016
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Devastated

Rescuers search through debris of collapsed houses following an earthquake in Pescara del Tronto, Italy, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. The magnitude 6 quake
struck at 3:36 a.m. (0136 GMT) and was felt across a broad swath of central Italy, including Rome where residents of the capital felt a long swaying followed by
aftershocks.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     (AP Photo/Sandro Perozzi)

  Italy Earthquake Reduces Towns to Rubble

PAOLO SANTALUCIA             raced to dig out survivors    was uncertain given the     find what they described                                                    “The town isn’t here any-
FRANCES D’EMILIO             from a strong earthquake      thousands of vacationers    as apocalyptic scenes “like                                                 more,” said Sergio Pirozzi,
NICOLE WINFIELD              that reduced three cen-       in the area for summer’s    Dante’s Inferno,” with entire                                               the mayor of the hardest-
Associated Press             tral Italian towns to rubble  final days. Residents wak-  blocks of buildings turned                                                  hit town, Amatrice. “I be-
AMATRICE, Italy (AP) — Res-  Wednesday. The death toll     ened before dawn by the     into piles of sand and rock,                                                lieve the toll will rise.”
cue crews using bulldoz-     stood at 159, but the num-    temblor emerged from        thick dust choking the air
ers and their bare hands     ber of dead and missing       their crumbled homes to     and a putrid smell of gas.                                                         Continued on Page 2
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