Italian Premier Matteo Renzi
and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday met fire
fighters who rescued an eight-year-old girl in Pescara del
Tronto after a devastating earthquake in central Italy on August
24 that left 293 dead.
The meeting in the Modena-area town of Maranello, home to
Ferrari luxury carmaker and its Formula One racing team, was
attended by delegations from the Civil Protection Department,
the fire department, and rescue dog Leo, who first detected the
child trapped under meters of rubble.
Giorgia was extracted from the debris of her home 16 hours
after the 6.2-magnitude quake struck at 0:36 last Wednesday.
Her 10-year-old sister was found dead beside her while her
parents were both pulled out alive.
Renzi and Merkel are scheduled to hold bilateral talks
ahead of an Italian-German intergovernmental meeting.
Finance ministers Pier Carlo Padoan and Wolfgang Schauble
are also scheduled to meet.
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