NORCIA, Italy, Oct 31 (APP/AFP) – Italy’s most powerful earthquake in 36 years struck the country’s mountainous centre Sunday, panicking shell-shocked residents for the third time in two months and flattening a world famous 600-year-old basilica. Remarkably, there were no reports of anyone dying as a result of the 6.6-magnitude quake but more than 3,000 people were left temporarily homeless, the national civil protection agency said. “We can confirm that we have no information on victims,” said agency head Fabrizio Curcio, adding that 20 people had been injured, relatively lightly. However “many buildings are in a critical state in historic centres and there are problems with electricity and water supplies,” Curcio told reporters.
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New Italy quake sows terror, flattens historic church
