Central Italy rocked…..
…"Amatrice is not a town any more'


'The town is no more. I have an appeal to make:  we have access roads to the town cut off and people under the rubble , help us", said Sergio Pirozzi, mayor of Amatrice to Italian journalists.
A strong earthquake rocked central Italy early Wednesday. The magnitude 6 quake struck at 3.36 am and was felt through central Italy and Rome.
The hardest hit towns were Amatrice and Accumoli near Rieti some 100 kilometres northeast of Rome and Arquata del Tronto near Ascoli.  21 people were reported dead. Some 39 aftershocks continued into the early morning hours some as strong as 5.1.