KNTV Early Today August 24, 2016
It buried residents under rubble as they sleet. But officials warn the death toll is expected to rise. Local media reporting 37 deaths. Reporter good morning. As you said search teams now reaching more of these remote areas and the number of dead is rising as they get to these villages completely destroyed by this earthquake. The earthquake hit in the middle of the night, the worse possible time, 3 36 local time as people were sleeping. A magnitude 6. 2. It was shallow and felt across the regions of umbria and lamarca and as far as rome. About 80 miles north of rome was hit the hardest. The ma...