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Watch: Italy quake church collapse caught on camera




The collapse of San Salvatore a Campi di Norcia church in Central Italy was caught on camera late yesterday as the late 14th century structure collapsed in the second earthquake to hit the country in as many hours. ?
Many residents of Campi, a town of about 200, slept in their cars as aftershocks rocked the Umbria, Marche and Lazio regions throughout the night.
An earthquake on August 24 in the same area killed nearly 300 people and destroyed several towns.
"I can't shake off the fear," said Mauro Viola, 64, who said he had not sleep and had spent the night outside.
Police had blocked off the road to his home with a park bench, and Viola said a chapel beyond his house had collapsed.?
The quakes were probably a result of August's seismic break, Massimiliano Cocco from Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology told the Corriere della Sera newspaper.
The first tremor measured magnitude 5.4, causing many people to flee their homes and the second was stronger at 6.1 magnitude. A 4.9 aftershock came a couple hours after that, and dozens of weaker ones followed.
Rescue workers set up some 50 beds in a quake-proof building for people who could not sleep in their...

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