Earthquake in Italy kills 10, injures more
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At least 10 people were killed while more were injured by a 5.8 magnitude quake that hit central Italy on Tuesday, said the Adnkronos news agency.
Three workers were killed in the collapse of a warehouse near the central city of Modena while one man lost his life at his home.
Some buildings and factories, which were damaged by the 5.9-magnitude quake on May 20, collapsed in Tuesday's quake.
The new earthquake occurred shortly after 9:00 a.m. local time (0700 GMT) and had its epicenter in the small town of Medolla near Modena and a depth of 10 km, Italy's Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) said.
Many buildings, including schools and hospitals, were evacuated in the surrounding area, and also in cities across central and northern Italy such as Milan and Florence, while railway services were temporarily suspended in some localities.
In the past several days after May 20 earthquake, which killed seven people and injured dozens of others, a series of aftershocks hit central Italy, where some 7,500 people are still out of home.
"Central Italy is going through a seismic shower," a seismologist in Milan, Massimo Compagnoni, told Sky television. "In some cases in the past, the sequence has last for even two years," he said.
