Survivors of the
earthquake that hit central Italy Wednesday are "asking not to
go far from home, they want to remain close," Lower House
Speaker Laura Boldrini said on her arrival Thursday in a rescue
camp in the Marche town of Arquata del Tronto. "They prefer to
sleep in the car provided they don't have to leave their homes
and we must take this into account," she said, stressing that
"we have seen in the past that moving people definitively away
is very negative, it doesn't work". The 6.2-magnitude quake
killed at least 241 people in the Lazio towns of Amatrice and
Accumoli and the Marche town of Arquata del Tronto. Boldrini is
a Marche native, from Macerata.
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