Damaged houses of the central Italian village of Arquata del Tronto are pictured on August 25, 2016, a day after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck the region killing some 247 people.
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in central Italy rose to 247 on August 25, 2016 amid fears many more corpses would be found in the rubble of devastated mountain villages. Rescuers sifted through collapsed masonry in the search for survivors, but their grim mission was clouded by uncertainty about exactly how many people had been staying in communities closest to the epicentre of the quake of August 24. / AFP PHOTO / MARCO ZEPPETELLA
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