A powerful earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing six people and felling homes and church steeples around the historic city of Ferrara. Emergency services said at least 50 people were injured in the 6.0-magnitude quake, which struck just after 4 a.m. (10 p.m. ET Saturday), sending thousands of people running into the streets in town and cities from the Emilia-Romagna region to Venice. Authorities said the quake's epicenter was the commune of Finale Emilia, 36 kilometers (22 miles) north of Bologna. A 29-year-old Moroccan man was killed by a falling girder when a factory building collapsed in the small town of Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno.
A powerful earthquake shook Italy's industrial and densely populated northeast early Sunday, killing six people and felling homes and church steeples around the historic city of Ferrara.
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Emergency services said at least 50 people were injured in the 6.0-magnitude quake, which struck just after 4 a.m. (10 p.m. ET Saturday), sending thousands of people running into the streets in town and cities from the Emilia-Romagna region to Venice.
Authorities said the quake's epicenter was the commune of Finale Emilia, 36 kilometers (22 miles) north of Bologna.
A 29-year-old Moroccan man was killed by a falling girder when a factory building collapsed in the small town of Ponte Rodoni di Bondeno.
Two Italian workers died when a roof caved in at a ceramics factory in Sant-Agostino. And another worker was reported missing when the roof of another factory collapsed in a town in the same area.
One of the men killed in the factory collapse, Nicola Cavicchi, 35, "wanted to go to the seaside but because of the bad weather forecast he decided to go to work to replace a colleague who was sick," a family member told local media.
Another worker was reported missing in the collapse of a roof on a foundry in another village in the same area.
Ferrara, Italy city view via Shutterstock.
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