Hope fades in Italy for more quake survivors

As the day of national mourning begins in Italy, hope is fading Saturday among rescuers after coming back from another search operation empty-handed with their sniffer dogs. They concede the chances are low of finding anyone alive in the ruins and piles of rubble and masonry of Amatrice, the central Italian town flattened by Wednesday’s […]

As the day of national mourning begins in Italy, hope is fading Saturday among rescuers after coming back from another search operation empty-handed with their sniffer dogs.
They concede the chances are low of finding anyone alive in the ruins and piles of rubble and masonry of Amatrice, the central Italian town flattened by Wednesday’s earthquake.
Not that they were advertising that to the locals, who are praying that more of their friends and relatives will be pulled alive from what remains of a town that traces its history back to the Romans and Lombards.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella, guided by Amatrice’s Mayor Sergio Pirozzi, visited the town yesterday and thanked rescue workers.