ISCHIA, Italy (Reuters) — Fire crews rescued a baby boy from rubble after an earthquake struck the tourist-packed Italian island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples, on Monday night.
A picture released by the Fire Brigade shows the baby in the arms of a fireman in the early hours of Tuesday morning (August 22).
The Brigade’s Twitter account described the rescue in the town of Casamicciola as a ‘miracle’.
The quake of magnitude 4.0 killed at least one person and injured some 25 others as buildings collapsed, officials said.
Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV) put the magnitude at 4.0 but both the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the European quake agency, EMSC, estimated the magnitude at 4.3.
Helicopters and a ferry boat were bringing in more rescue workers from the mainland.
