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A strong and unusually shallow earthquake struck northern Italy over the weekend, fracturing pavement, sending torrents of brick and rubble raining down from buildings, and killing seven people. The powerful shaking was a first for the region in centuries — and fairly surprising to seismologists.
Italians have begun assessing the damage to one of their most historic regions, a day after seven people were killed in a 6.0 magnitude earthquake.
Prosecutors believe they know the identity of a man shown in surveillance video footage apparently activating a remote control that set off a bomb rigged up from gas canisters as students were arriving for lessons on Saturday.
ROME — An earthquake struck the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna on Sunday, killing five people, wounding at least 50 and damaging historic buildings as well as warehouses and factories, officials said.
ROME – A bomb blast outside a high school in southern Italy that killed a 16-year-old student has revived dark memories of the 70s and 80s, when terrorists, anarchists and organized crime carried out dozens of bloody attacks across the country.
SANT’AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy — One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least four people, toppled buildings and sent residents running into the streets, emergency services and news reports said.
At least six people are reported to have died and 50 others injured after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Bologna in northern Italy.
The powerful quake hit shortly after 4am local time, felling homes and causing damage to several historic buildings in the area. Thousands of people fled into the streets.
A bomb exploded Saturday in front of a school in this southern city, killing a student and wounding at least five others, local officials said, raising fears of a return to the kind of violence that shook Italy decades ago.
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said Friday that both budget consolidation and growth are necessary to tackle the eurozone crisis. "That seems rather clear to me, it has been for some time," said the Italian head of state.
The total number of employed Italians has fallen by one million over the past five years while the number of foreigners working in Italy has gone up by 750,000, according to a labor ministry report Friday. Based on data from national statistics agency Istat, the report said that a total of 250,000 jobs disappeared from 2007 to 2011.