The strong 6.2 magnitude quake struck early on Wednesday as people slept, razing homes and buckling roads. Many victims visitorsAerial photographs showed whole areas of Amatrice, last year voted one of Italy's most beautiful historic towns, flattened by the quake. Inhabitants of the four worst-hit small towns rise by as much as tenfold in the summer, and many of those killed or missing were visitors. Rescuers work in the night at a collapsed house following an earthquake in Pescara del Tronto, central Italy, August 24, 2016. The quake was relatively shallow at 4 km (2.5 miles) below the earth's surface.

Source: Thanhnien News August 25, 2016 09:00 UTC