Italy quake: hopes fade of finding more survivors

 

 

More than 48-hours after the 6.2 magnitude quake flattened several hillside villages in central Italy hopes are fading of finding anymore survivors.

 

On Friday morning it was revealed nobody was found alive overnight after firefighters pulled out several bodies.

 

“Fortunately, all my family are safe, my sister was under rubble for many hours, but she was rescued. It’s a miracle because she lives in the centre and her house completely collapsed,’‘ said one woman in the devastated town of Amatrice.

 

There are fears the final number of dead could eclipse the earthquake which struck nearby L’Aquila in 2009. That killed more than 300 people.

 

Despite thousands of emergency staff, rescue efforts have been hampered by hundreds of aftershocks.

 

Fabio Fulvio a rescue volunteer said: ‘‘We have started to deal with the bodies of victims and we’ll send them to morgues in nearby Rieti and L’Aquila. We’ll start the transfers when the ambulances arrive.’‘

 

While around 2,500 people are estimated to have been left homeless by the disaster, more than 200 people were killed in the town of Amatrice alone.

The first funerals are expected later on Friday.

 

From Amatrice, Euronews’ Raquel Garcia said: ‘‘The initial shock in the aftermath of the quake is increasingly being replaced by a mood of resignation for those whose relatives survived but lost everything else. There are others, however, who only have a victim to identify. The mortuaries continue to receive unnamed bodies.’‘

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-08-27

It looks like the buildings in these old towns and cities and villages,

are the standard buildings of the day. The school that was supposed to been

renovated is a tragedy that it was so damaged. I hope the contractors

are found and charged or hanged if anyone died in these buildings.

The rest of the old houses and businesses are like a lot of places in the world that were

built so long ago, the earth quake buildings codes were likely not even known.

  People there have to remember that. I see so many who are mad at the government, but

is it the governments fault, or just the age of the old buildings?

RIP to all of those killed, and I hope the survivors are able to recover and

help rebuild their towns, once they get over the shock of this event.

If they sit around like the people of Haiti did, then they are not a people

who the older Italian people that I know in Canada are, very hard working

and proud of their homes and work places.

Geezer