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Italy : Earthquake : 2002/10/31
GLIDE: EQ-2002-000690-ITA

Duration	2002/10/31
Country or District	Italy
Name	Earthquake
Outline	Fifty-seven children and staff were trapped in rubble after their school collapsed when a violent earthquake rocked the Italian village of San Giuliano di Puglia.

Headline(Source, Date)
Personal Injury	Material Damage	Others
BBC news 2002/11/02
Dead: 29 people (including 26 children)	The school collapsed on itself while other buildings were left standing.
IFRC Report 2002/11/01
Death:27 people Rescued:34 people	Nearly three quarters of the village buildings collapsed

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IFRC Report 2002/11/01
An earthquake registering 5.9 on the Richter Scale occurred in southern, and 27 people are dead, and some 34 people were rescued.
The Voice of America 2002/11/01
Another Earthquake Rocks Italy
The Irish times 2002/11/02
Italy mourns the 'little angels' of village school's earthquake disaster
BBC news 2002/11/02
Residents from the southern Italian village where 29 people were killed in an earthquake have spent a second night in the open.
CNN News 2002/11/1
Sobbing family members were keeping a restless watch over rescuers digging through the rubble of a collapsed school where 24 children have already been found dead.
Reuters 2002/11/01
Earthquake killed at least 22 people, including 20 children crushed when their school collapsed.
CNN news 2002/10/31
Earthquake killed 19 children in southern Italy.
CNN news 2002/10/31
Earthquake struck in southern Italy.
BBC news 2002/10/31
Witnesses describe earthquake terror

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