For more on the earthquake in Italy, CRI correspondent Wang Baoquan joins us
on the line, who is in the quake-stricken town of L'Aquila. Hello, Baoquan.
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| Police officers and rescue workers on Tuesday at the ruins of an apartment complex in L’Aquila, Italy. The death toll rose to 235.(AFP photo) |
Q1: Rescue teams have searched for survivors for a third day, can you tell us
more about the rescue operation?
Q2: What relief work is going on for survivors?
Answers:
1. Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi says more than seven-thousand men are at
work to search for survivors. Modern equipment and sniffer dogs are being used
in the operation. On Tuesday night, a 20-year-old girl was found alive after 42
hours of the quake. She was saved from the rubble of a four-storey building. So
far, one-hundred-fifty people have been rescued from the ruins. But hopes of
finding more survivors are dimming.
Meanwhile, frequent aftershocks have complicated rescue operations. In other
developments, rescuers on Tuesday called a halt to the rescue operation in Onna,
the small town near L'Aquila. Onna was worst hit in Monday's earthquake. Some
international rescue teams have also joined the search operation.
2. Regarding the relief work, Prime Minister Berlusconi has stressed "People
come first." The government has set up twenty camps and sixteen field kitchens
to provide hot food and accommodation for tens of thousands homeless people. But
the temperature here in the evening is only about 4 degrees Celsius.
Prime Minister Berlusconi said there are no problems with financial
aid. The government has set special fund for housing reconstruction and
survivors. He also said the first new town will soon be constructed near
L'Aquila to host families that have lost their houses.
The civil protection department has sent over two-hundred teams of experts to
conduct inspections of damaged homes and public buildings. The government
has also begun a plan to help people who lost their jobs due to the quake. Back
to you.
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