Over half the Abruzzo hamlet
of Ponzano at Civitella del Tronto is being engulfed by a
landslide which is swallowing up houses "like an earthquake",
officials said Wednesday. Some 33 homes have been evacuated
leaving 98 people homeless as the landslide has cut a hill in
two, they said, falling at a rate of a metre a day. Between 30
and 40 hectares of mostly arable land is sliding along with a
stretch of provincial road being undermined at a depth of 15-20
metres, officials said. Abruzzo, like Lazio, Marche and Umbria,
was hit by a devastating series of earthquakes last year.
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