Tuesday

L'Aquila Disaster


By Monday night local time, April 6, 2009, rescue services team still continue to shield the inhabitants are still ruins of the building were locked, as a result of the earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila, the province of Abruzzo, Italy Center .
So far at least 150 people died, about 1500 people injured and 50,000 people lost their homes as a result of the earthquake force 6 / 3 Richter scale. The number of victims is likely to continue to grow.

Residents who survived, many of which are still in pajamas and blankets, with the slogan body seemed lifeless body from the ruins of the medieval city of L'Aquila, about 120 kilometers northeast of the capital of Rome.

The leader of Catholics in the Vatican, Pope Benediktus XVI prayed for the victims, mostly children who died in the earthquake.

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