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Search and rescue crews are using whatever they can to locate survivors from a magnitude 6.2 earthquake that reduced three central Italian towns to rubble early today. The death toll stood at 120, but certainly will rise said officials. ‘‘The town isn’t here anymore,’’ said Sergio Pirozzi, the mayor of the hardest-hit town, Amatrice.
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By Lloyd Young

A man is rescued from the ruins following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy, on Aug. 2.

(Remo Casilli/Reuters)