Around 600 people have been
evacuated from their homes in the Mugello area south of Florence
after a series of earthquakes hit the area Sunday night and
Monday morning, Massimo Fratini, the Florence metropolitan
area's civil protection head, said on Tuesday.
Historic buildings, churches and convents were damaged the
the quakes, the strongest measuring 4.5 magnitude.
Many schools in the area were closed as a precautionary
measure.
Central Italy was hit by devastating earthquakes in August
and October 2016, the first of which killed almost 300 people.
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