A priest was among at least 15 people killed today after the second earthquake to strike northern Italy within nine days caused his church to collapse and toppled scores of other buildings.
Father Ivo Martini died after he and a firefighter went inside his church in Rovereto di Novi, near Modena, to recover a Virgin Mary statue following this morning's 5.8 magnitude tremor at 9am.
He perished in a subsequent masonry collapse during one of the four other aftershocks measuring above 4.0 that also hit the industrially important Emilia Romagna region during 90 terrifying minutes.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151469/Italy-earthquake-2012-15-dead-5-8-quake-hits-region-7-died-week.html#ixzz1wIgjMomb
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