Rescue efforts after the
6.2-magnitude earthquake that devastated parts of central Italy
in the early hours of Wednesday morning will continue for as
long as it takes to find everyone thought to be trapped under
the rubble, the civil protection department said on Thursday.
"Search and rescue operations will continue until all
activities have been exhausted...until it is thought that all
people involved in the (building) collapses have been found,"
they said.
"We are entering a phase that allows us to keep hoping that
some people might still be alive," the fire department's
emergency communications director Luca Cari told Sky tg 24.
"We have 30 sniffer dog units from all over Italy and
instruments allowing us to intercept sounds coming from the
rubble," he continued.
"We don't set ourselves limits, our last reference concerns
L'Aquila, when someone was saved 72 hours after the earthquake."
Meanwhile on Wednesday night 1,200 people displaced by the
quake slept in tent camps made available to the stricken
population in the Lazio towns of Amatrice and Accumoli and
Pescara del Tronto in neighboring Marche.
This was far less than the capacity of 3,400.
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