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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.â€
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