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Avalanche Buries Hotel Rigopiano in Italy After Earthquake<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Avalanche Buries Hotel Rigopiano in Italy After Earthquake:-<\/strong> An earthquake-triggered avalanche buried a hotel in central Italy, leaving up to 29 hotel guests and workers either missing or dead, rescue workers said early Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Authorities spent the night battling atrocious weather conditions trying to reach the Hotel Rigopiano in the town of Farindola, on the Gran Sasso mountain in the central Abruzzo region.<\/span><\/p>\n

“There are many dead,” Antonio Crocetta from the Abruzzo mountain rescue team told Italy’s ANSA news agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fabrizio Curcio, head of Italy’s civil protection agency, confirmed that 22 guests registered at the hotel were unaccounted for, along with “six or seven” workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Two survivors raised the alarm, including one who was flown to the hospital suffering from hypothermia. One body has been found so far, Curcio said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Italy’s Civil Protection department said late Wednesday it had dispatched a team of 20 rescuers including seven firefighters, two mountain rescue teams and six ambulances to the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

Local media pictures showed rescuers with shovels digging through a wall of snow, and at least one man being led through the cleared path.<\/span><\/p>\n

The region has been shaken by dozens of aftershocks since a major quake last August that killed nearly 300 people and ruined buildings in historic towns and hamlets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four strong temblors struck Wednesday morning, adding to problems caused by cold weather and winter storms. The first, with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3, hit Montereale at about 10:25 a.m. (5:25 a.m. ET), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Throughout Wednesday, seismologists registered more than 100 aftershocks.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Rome, more than 100 miles away from epicentre, the subway system was closed for hours as a precaution and parents were asked to pick up their children from some schools.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maurizio Pelosi, mayor of the town of Capitagno, near the epicenter of Wednesday’s quakes, said many local roads were blocked due to the snow even before the temblors. A hotel worker in town, Giuseppe Di Felice, told state-run RAI radio people couldn’t get out of their homes. “It’s apocalyptic,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:- http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/avalanche-buries-hotel-rigopiano-italy-after-earthquake-many-dead-reports-n708716<\/span><\/div>\n

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