Funeral without bodies in Amatrice Wed

(ANSA) - Rieti, August 26 - A religious service for the quake dead in Amatrice will be brought forward from Wednesday to Tuesday to enable Premier Matteo Renzi to attend, Rieti Bishop Domenico Pompili said Friday. He said the service would be without coffins because it is not possible "to say when we will have all the bodies at our disposal since some have already been taken away by their families". Lazio town Amatrice was the worst hit by Wednesday's 6.2-magnitude tremor which killed at least 267 people, 207 of them in Amatrice.