Rescue and emergency services personnel carry away a survivor on a stretcher during search and rescue operations in Amatrice on August 24, 2016 after a powerful earthquake rocked central Italy.   
A powerful earthquake rattled a remote area of central Italy, leaving at least 120 people dead and and some 368 injured amongst scenes of carnage in mountain villages.
 

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