Dozens Dead in Italy After 6.2 Magnitude Earthquake

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A large, damaging 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck central Italy at 3:36 a.m. local time Wednesday morning (9:36 p.m. EDT Tuesday night), killing at least 37 people, many while they slept. The death toll is expected to rise as countless others are missing in the debris.Much of the heart of Amatrice, a town of about 2,700 in the province of Rieti, Central Italy, had been reduced to rubble.”The town isn’t here anymore,” Amatrice Mayor Sergio Pirozzi said.Survivors wept in the streets and priests blessed the bodies of the victims pulled from the destruction. One woman tol”It was one of the most beautiful towns of Italy and now there’s nothing left,” a woman in Amatrice told the Associated Press. “I don’t know what we’ll do.”Rescuers arrived Wednesday morning in Amatrice and were combing through debris in the hopes of finding survivors. One woman was pulled out of a collapsed building alive with her dog, the Associated Press reports.