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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Italy quake survivors set for gloomy Easter AFP - Sunday, April 12 L'AQUILA, Italy (AFP) - - Survivors of central Italy's devastating earthquake were on Saturday preparing for a mournful Easter as inspectors began assessing the damage inflicted on more than 10,000 abandoned homes. ADVERTISEMENT "Unfortunately we're going to have to celebrate Easter here," said 70-year-old Anna Parisse, one of the some 24,000 people sheltering in tent camps set up near the quake's epicentre L'Aquila. "It's not going to be the same." "I want to be at home with my family," said Parisse, as she queued up to collect some clothes and toiletries donated for the many survivors who were left without basic necessities after escaping the disaster. At the tent camp on the outskirts of the medieval walled city, a monk called Brother Simon went from tent to tent giving communion to those too infirm to attend Easter masses. "We're also taking confessions," he said. "Amid all the suffering, there's also a discovery of the most essential value for some people. But there are other people who are still too scared, still under shock." After spending a fifth night in the camp, there were also scenes of relative normality. Elderly people sat in the sun, women hung out clothes to dry and children played hide-and-seek and football among the blue tents. "I don't know what I'm going to do for Easter. But they've given me a lot of chocolate eggs. I'm not going to go to school. It was destroyed," said Robert Reyes, a 12-year-old from the Philippines playing football with friends. Meanwhile around 50 firemen and rescue workers with sniffer dogs continued to sift through the debris of a collapsed home in L'Aquila in the hope of finding a survivor after first detecting possible signs of life on Friday. "We have heard signals. The geophone and the sniffer dogs detected something," said fire service spokesman Luca Cari at the site of the search as a crane lifted large pieces of concrete and firemen searched by hand. Maurizio Orlandi, a sound detection expert, said: "There were two beats, then three or four. Then it became rhythmic. We obviously want to pull a survivor out or at least be sure there's no one there." In another part of the city, dozens of people waited to hear from teams of inspectors assessing whether residents could return to their abandoned homes or at least take their belongings out with the help of firefighters. "The engineers have begun inspecting in the west of the city, which was the most spared by the earthquake," said local administration chief Massimiliano Cordeschi, who said 18,000 people have registered for inspections so far. But some residents were puzzled by the checks, saying that the many strong aftershocks that have continued since Monday's earthquake, which killed nearly 300 people, made it unlikely anyone would move back anytime soon. "Even if they say I can live in it, I'm not going back," said one man. At the tent camp, Parisse shook her head in resignation: "I don't know if we'll ever recover from this. I don't know if L'Aquila will ever recover." Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article 0 users recommend Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: World Thousands protest in Georgia for 3rd dayAP - 51 minutes ago UK police get more time to quiz Qaeda suspectsAFP - 57 minutes ago Thai protesters force Asia summit cancellationReuters - 1 hour 2 minutes ago Iraqi PM welcomes Russian businessAP - 1 hour 5 minutes ago Riot and fire take place at British prisonAP - 1 hour 9 minutes ago Enlarge Photo Firemen look for survivors in the rubble of a four-storey building in the Abruzzo capital L'Aquila. Survivors of central Italy's devastating earthquake are preparing for a mournful Easter as inspectors began assessing the damage inflicted on more than 10,000 abandoned homes. Most Popular – World Viewed UN sounds warning after Antarctica ice shelf rips French commandos storm yacht Harry Potter actor arrested over cannabis find US navy bears down on Somali pirates Selective abortion causes 32mln excess China males View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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