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11:39 GMT
ROME, Jan 19 (KUNA) -- Some 30 people have perished when a quake-triggered avalanche demolished a hotel located on a hill of Gran Saso Mountain in the nation's heartland,
Relief organizations' officials told the local media, on Thursday, that prospects of finding any survivors under heaps of the wrecked building were nil.
There were two children among those trapped under the rubble.
Some 300,000 people have been without power since a fiery earthquake hit the central regions yesterday. (end)
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