Author: Ben Munster

AMATRICE, Italy — Gaetano Galli surveyed the quiet street and casually pointed out where the earthquake had wrought its havoc. There, the splintered wreck of a bungalow that caved in on a family of six; across the road, the spot where over a dozen were crushed under the weight of a multi-storey villa. Finally, he turned to the pile of rubble that was once his own home. “The night of the 24th, I was inside,” he recalled, indicating where the roof had cratered, causing the supporting walls to disintegrate. “I had a kid of four years and a baby of…

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