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The quake also took a severe toll on L'Aquila's prized architectural heritage.

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Ironically, a month before the L'Aquila quake, a lab technician had warned a major quake might occur based on an increase in radon gas emissions from the ground.

Japan also plans to step up negotiations with the L'Aquila city government over a plan to provide financial assistance for another project to build a gymnasium, which will also serve as an evacuation center in the event of emergencies.

The Italians moved the G8 summit from Sardinia to L'Aquila as a gesture of support for the 54,000 people left homeless there.

asset values, and the issue is unlikely to progress very far in L'Aquila.

L'AQUILA, Italy: Rescuers removed three more bodies from a collapsed university dormitory in central Italy early Thursday, raising to 275 the death toll in the country's worst earthquake in three decades.

The Newcastle Falcons Supporters Club formed strong bonds with the disaster-struck region when the club travelled to Italy to play L'Aquila in 2005.

Eleonora Calesini, a 20-year-old student, was found alive in the ruins of the five-story building in central L'Aquila, said her grandfather, Renato Calesini.

As the death toll rose to 207, exhausted searchers refused to give up hope of finding more alive in the wrecked city of L'Aquila and the mountain villages surrounding it.

Relatives of the missing watched in agony yesterday as rescuers dug by hand for survivors in the earthquake ravaged Italian city of L'Aquila.

Firefighters comfort a person as they search through the rubble of a collapsed building, in L'Aquila, central Italy (Inset) A woman reacts as a firefighters uncover a body

RELATIVES of the missing watched in agony as rescuers dug by hand for survivors in the earthquake ravaged Italian city of L'Aquila yesterday.