At least 300 people are feared dead following a powerful earthquake that struck Central and Southern Italy this Sunday Morning.
Several others have been injured while several towns destroyed. Castelsantangelo sul Nera, Arquata del Tronto, Ussita and Prècis are just some of the towns and villages destroyed by the magnitude 6.6 earthquake.
The mayor of quake-hit Ussita said a huge cloud of smoke
erupted from the crumbled buildings. "It's a disaster, a disaster!" Mayor Marco Rinaldi told the ANSA news agency. "I was sleeping in the car and I saw hell."
In Arquata del Tronto, which had been devastated by the Aug. 24 earthquake that killed nearly 300 people, Arquata Mayor Aleandro Petrucci said, "There are no
towns left." "Everything came down," he said.
Rescue efforts are going on as people are being pulled out of the rubble of collapsed buildings. 9 people have been rescued so far.
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