by Ella Ide Agence France Presse CASAMICCIOLA TERME, Italy (AFP) — Eleven-year old Ciro, the last child to be pulled from the rubble on the Italian island of Ischia Tuesday, saved his little brother’s life when the deadly earthquake struck, rescuers workers said. Firefighters had to dig with their bare hands to reach the youngster, who had been buried along with his seven-year old brother Mattias and seven-month old half-brother Pasquale. “It was Ciro […]
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Baby rescued from earthquake rubble
ISCHIA, Italy (Reuters) — Fire crews rescued a baby boy from rubble after an earthquake struck the tourist-packed Italian island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples, on Monday night. A picture released by the Fire Brigade shows the baby in the arms of a fireman in the early hours of Tuesday morning (August 22). The Brigade’s Twitter account described the rescue in the town of Casamicciola as a ‘miracle’. The quake of magnitude 4.0 […]





