collapsed in Cavezzo. A strong earthquake has rocked northeastern
Italy, killing at least 15 people, just days after another quake in
the same region wrought death and destruction. (AFP Photo/Pierre
Teyssot)
Damaged buildings are seen in Mirandola near Modena May 29, 2012. An
earthquake struck northern Italy on Tuesday,killing at least 10
people, damaging buildings and spreading panic among thousands of
residents stillliving in tents after a tremor shook the region just
over a week ago, destroying their homes. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
(ITALY - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)
People walk past a collapsed building, after an earthquake, in Cavezzo
near Modena May 29, 2012. An earthquake struck northern Italy on
Tuesday, killing at least 10people, damaging buildings and spreading
panic among thousands ofresidents still living in tents after a tremor
shook the region just over a week ago, destroying theirhomes.
REUTERS/Giorgio Benvenuti (ITALY - Tags: ENVIRONMENT DISASTER)
A man walks in front of a collapsed church in Mirandola, northern
Italy, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. A magnitude 5.8 earthquakestruck the
same area of northern Italy stricken by another fatal tremor on May
20. (AP Photo/Marco Vasini)
People react in front of thedestroyed BBG industrial moldings building
in Mirandola, northern Italy, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. Second from left
is Mr.Borghi who lost his sonin the building. A magnitude 5.8
earthquakestruck northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 10people
as factories, warehouses and a church collapsed in the same region
still struggling to recover from another deadly tremor nine days ago.
(AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
An Italian policeman helpsa woman and her baby during an earth tremor
in Mirandola, northern Italy, Tuesday, May 29, 2012. A magnitude 5.8
earthquakestruck northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 10people
as factories, warehouses and a church collapsed in the same region
still struggling to recover from another deadly tremor nine days ago.
(AP Photo/Marco Vasini)
Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their
first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this
month when another one struck Tuesday morning, collapsing the roof.
At least three employees at the factory — two immigrants and an
Italian engineer checking the building's stability — wereamong those
killed in the second deadly quake in nine days to strike a region of
Italy that hadn't considered itself particularly quake prone.
By late Tuesday, the deathtoll stood at 16, with one person missing :
a worker at the machinery factory in the small town of San Felice Sul
Panaro. Some 350 people also were injured in the 5.8 magnitude quake
north ofBologna in Emilia Romagna, one of Italy's more productive
regions, agriculturally and industrially. Originally government
officials had put the death toll at 17, and there was no immediately
explanation for the lowered toll.
The injured included a 65-year-old woman who was pulled out alive by
rescuers after lying for 12 hours in the rubble of her apartment's
kitchen in Cavezzo, another town hard hit by the quake. Firefighters
told Sky TG24 TV that a piece of furniture, which had toppled over,
saved her from being crushed by thewreckage. She was taken to a
hospital for treatment.
The building had been damaged in the first quake, on May 20, and
hadbeen vacant since. The woman had just gone back inside it Tuesday
morning to retrieve some clothes when the latest temblor knocked down
the building, firefighters said.
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