It is not time to start pointing
the finger at possible shortcomings in the response to Italy's
quake and snow emergency, the Italian Bishops' Conference (CEI)
said Thursday. "It's not the moment to blame people" for an
avalanche that hit an Abruzzo hotel with around 30 feared dead,
said CEI Secretary-General Msgr Nunzio Galantino. "That is no
use, and the situation is objectively difficult," Msgr Galantino
said. Thurty-five people were said to be in the Hotel Rigopiano
when a "huge wave of detritus" wrapped in an avalanche swept it
away. Two people who had just left the building survived.
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