Snow covers a car of the Italian Civil Protection (Protezione Civile) parked at a nearby sports ground in Montereale, after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck the region, on January 19, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO
This image grab made from a video handout released by the Guardia di Finanza on January 19, 2017 shows a man being escorted by Alpine policemen (R) and a fireman (L) outside the Hotel Rigopiano, near the village of Farindola, on the eastern lower slopes of the Gran Sasso mountain.
Up to 30 people were feared to have died after an Italian mountain Hotel Rigopiano was engulfed by a powerful avalanche in the earthquake-ravaged centre of the country. Italy’s Civil Protection agency confirmed the Hotel Rigopiano had been engulfed by a two-metre (six-feet) high wall of snow and that emergency services were struggling to get ambulances and diggers to the site.
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This handout image obtained on the Vigili del Fuoco twitter account on January 19, 2017 shows a rescue operation at the Hotel Rigopiano, near the village of Farindola, on the eastern lower slopes of the Gran Sasso mountain, engulfed by a powerful avalanche.
Up to 30 people were feared to have died after an Italian mountain Hotel Rigopiano was engulfed by a powerful avalanche in the earthquake-ravaged centre of the country. Italy’s Civil Protection agency confirmed the Hotel Rigopiano had been engulfed by a two-metre (six-feet) high wall of snow and that emergency services were struggling to get ambulances and diggers to the site.
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This image grab made from a video handout released by the Guardia di Finanza on January 19, 2017 shows a wall of snow engulfing the inside of the Hotel Rigopiano, near the village of Farindola, on the eastern lower slopes of the Gran Sasso mountain.
Up to 30 people were feared to have died after an Italian mountain Hotel Rigopiano was engulfed by a powerful avalanche in the earthquake-ravaged centre of the country. Italy’s Civil Protection agency confirmed the Hotel Rigopiano had been engulfed by a two-metre (six-feet) high wall of snow and that emergency services were struggling to get ambulances and diggers to the site.
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Shocked residents from the village of Montereale arrive to set up for the night in a large tent on a nearby sports ground in Montereale, after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck the region, on January 18, 2017.
Central Italy was left reeling again on January 18, 2017 as a new wave of earthquakes brought fresh terror to a snowbound mountainous area still recovering from deadly tremors last year. Four shocks measuring more than five magnitude struck in the space of four hours with the epicentres all close to the town of Amatrice, where nearly 300 people died in an earthquake in August. / AFP PHOTO / ANDREAS SOLARO
This image grab made from a video handout released by the Guardia di Finanza on January 19, 2017 shows a man being escorted by Alpine policemen (R) and a fireman (L) outside the Hotel Rigopiano, near the village of Farindola, on the eastern lower slopes of the Gran Sasso mountain.
Up to 30 people were feared to have died after an Italian mountain Hotel Rigopiano was engulfed by a powerful avalanche in the earthquake-ravaged centre of the country. Italy’s Civil Protection agency confirmed the Hotel Rigopiano had been engulfed by a two-metre (six-feet) high wall of snow and that emergency services were struggling to get ambulances and diggers to the site.
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