Death toll in Italy quake rises to at least 37

Italy’s civil protection agency says at least 37 people have died in the magnitude 6 quake that struck central Italy in the early hours of the morning.

The agency says several hundred are injured and thousands are in need of temporary housing, but stresses the numbers are fluid.

A woman is pulled out of the rubble following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy on Aug. 24, 2016. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)
A woman is pulled out of the rubble following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy on Aug. 24, 2016. (Massimo Percossi/ANSA via AP)

— AP

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