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Latest from SKY news about Italy Quake

by Fred Miller | April 6, 2009 at 07:47 am

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Italy Earthquake Death Toll Mounts

ROME (Reuters) - The earthquake in central Italy on Monday has badly damaged several historic churches and other heritage sites, the Culture Ministry said.

At least four Romanesque and Renaissance churches and a 16th century castle were partially destroyed by the quake centred in the medieval city of L'Aquila, the ministry said. Read the full story at http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKTRE5353EK20090406

Video : Amanda Walker reports for Sky News:

Officials in the town of L'Aquila, at the centre of the region in Italy hit by the earthquake, say they believe there are people still trapped under collapsed buildings. Video here and also at : http://my.nowpublic.com/environment/state-emergency-italy-after-strong-quake-laquila

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Fred Miller

at 08:06 on April 6th, 2009

Part of the nave of the Basilica of Santa Maria di Collemaggio, one of the area's most famous churches, collapsed. Wiki says,

' S. Maria di Collemaggio is a large medieval church in L'Aquila, celebrated not only for its architecture, but also as the site of the original Papal Jubilee, a penitential observation devised by Pope Celestine V, who is buried here. The church, which therefore ranks as a basilica because of its importance in religious history, sits in isolation at the end of a long rectangular sward of grass at the SW edge of town. '

To the north, the belltower of the lavish Renaissance Basilica di San Bernardino also crumbled.