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Aftershocks impede Italian earthquake teams
Thu Apr 9, 2009 12:40pm EDT
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By Silvia Aloisi and Antonella Cinelli
L'AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) - Rescuers pulled more corpses on Thursday from the rubble of Italy's worst earthquake in three decades, braving strong aftershocks in the dimming hope of finding survivors.
The death toll from Monday's quake in the central region of Abruzzo climbed to 281 after rescuers recovered the latest bodies, including two students buried beneath a dormitory hall.
Twenty of the victims were children.
Tremors shook the medieval mountain city of L'Aquila and nearby villages throughout the morning, further damaging buildings and prompting authorities to cordon off the city center, which bore the brunt of the 6.3 magnitude quake.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called L'Aquila a "ghost town" and said reconstruction would cost billions.
The aftershocks -- one reaching 5.2 magnitude early on Thursday -- terrified many now homeless survivors, 17,000 of whom spent a fourth day in tent villages.
Rescuers said the chances of finding anyone alive were decreasing hourly. The last person rescued, a 20-year-old woman, was dug out from the ruins of a four-storey building late on Tuesday.
"As long as we know that there are people under the rubble, we will keep searching even if we're sure they're dead. Families need to know what happened to their loved ones," one firefighter said.
In rare cases, people have survived more than a week buried under rubble following earthquakes. The government has said searches will continue at least until Easter, this Sunday.
BLAME TO GO AROUND
The Vatican's No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, will preside at a funeral in L'Aquila for victims on Friday, which required a special dispensation because mass is not usually celebrated on Good Friday in the Catholic church.
Relatives of the dead have already begun holding private funerals.
President Giorgio Napolitano, touring the disaster zone for the first time, said there was plenty of blame to go around and cited supposedly earthquake-safe buildings that still collapsed.
"Nobody is without blame," he told reporters in L'Aquila. "Many people were involved in the construction of the buildings that collapsed. People need to search their consciences."
Officials say the quake will have a huge impact in a region which mostly lives off tourism, farming and family businesses. One estimate put the damage from the disaster at up to 3 billion euros ($4 billion), but its impact on Italy's nearly 2-trillion-euro economy is expected to be limited. Continued...
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