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shottafiyah

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http://ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-04-06_106345298.html

Quake: Over 100 dead, 1, 500 injured

Rescuers continue to dig through rubble

(ANSA) - Rome, April 6 - Monday's earthquake in central Italy left over 100 dead, 1,500 injured and some 70,000 homeless, officials said 14 hours after the disaster, Italy's biggest quake in almost 30 years.

The official death toll was set at 91 but rescuers said they had pulled over 108 bodies from rubble in the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila and neighbouring towns and that numbers were set to rise.

Italian Police Chief Antonio Manganelli said the 6.2 magnitude quake which hit at 03:33 local time (01:33 GMT) quake had left ''a horrible scene of death and destruction''.

One foreign national has so far been found among those killed, a female student from the Czech republic. Some 4,000 rescuers were at work and Italy will have access to the European Union's disaster fund, said Premier Silvio Berlusconi who cancelled a trip to Moscow to be at the scene. Helicopters were taking the most badly injured to hospital while many minor casualties were driving, or being driven, to Rome. Some 2,000 tents were being put up for the homeless, each able to house 8-10 people, empty couchette trains were also being made available, and the fire service thought it could find temporary lodgings for 2,000 more, Berlusconi said. Abruzzo Governor Gianni Chiodi said some 10,000 of the displaced could be moved to hotels on the coast. Berlusconi urged citizens not to stay indoors because of the risk of aftershocks or new quakes.

Messages of condolences and offers of help from countries including Serbia, Romania, Kosovo, Malta and Albania poured in Monday afternoon to join those of the European Union, the Vatican, the United States, Russia, Germany, France, Greece, Israel, Poland and Afghanistan.

Three people were meanwhile taken into custody after allegedly being caught looting in the centre of L'Aquila. The earthquake was Italy's worst since 2,570 people were killed southeast of Naples in 1980. The two most recent big quakes were in 1997 when 11 died in a tremor that damaged churches in Assisi and in 2002 when 27 school children and one teacher were killed in the collapse of a school east of Naples.

-- Edited by shottafiyah on Tuesday 7th of April 2009 02:55:29 AM

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saw it on di news..rip __________________ I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was. Least Said Soonest Mended.

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i heard bout dis i hope they recover from this terrible mess __________________ Its better to Have plans and Schemes than Hopes and Dreams.........Hard Work is the Key to Sucsess..doah GAZA MI SEY