Rescuers carry a man on a stretcher among damaged buildings after a strong earthquake hit central Italy, in Amatrice on August 24, 2016.

A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake devastated mountain villages in central Italy on August 24, 2016, leaving at least 18 people dead and dozens more injured or unaccounted for. Scores of buildings were reduced to dusty piles of masonry in communities close to the epicentre of the pre-dawn quake in a remote area straddling the regions of Umbria, Marche and Lazio. / AFP / FILIPPO MONTEFORTE        (Photo credit should read FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP/Getty Images)