The Civil Protection Department
said Friday the latest provisional death toll from Wednesday'
earthquake in central Italy is of 267 dead.
Of these, 207 died in the Lazio mountain village of
Amatrice, 11 in nearby Accumoli and 49 in the village of Arquata
del Tronto, in the neighboring Marche region.
As of yesterday, the fire brigade extracted 215 people from
the rubble alive and Alpine rescue services saved 23 lives, to a
total of 238.
Also on Friday, a 4.8-magnitude tremor occurred at 06:28 in
Amatrice, which was largely flattened by the quake that
devastated entire villages beginning at 03:36 on Wednesday.
The early morning tremor caused more buildings to collapse
in the historic center of the village, an ANSA correspondent on
the scene reported.
The collapses did not affect fire brigade rescuers at work
in two locations along the central village avenue - the Roma
Hotel, where a body was extracted last night, and a private
residence where two missing children may be trapped.
This morning's tremor was followed in the next 15 minutes
by eight more, ranging from 2 to 2.8 in magnitude, the National
Geophysics Institute (INGV) reported.
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