© Luca Bruno / The Associated PressRescue teams and search dogs look for three workers reported missing at a factory in Medolla, Italy, devastated by the area's second quake in nine days.
San Felice Sul Panaro, Italy - Workers at the small machinery company had just returned for their first shift following Italy's powerful and deadly quake earlier this month when another one struck Tuesday morning, collapsing the roof.
At least three employees at the factory - two immigrants and an Italian engineer checking the building's stability - were among those killed in the second deadly quake in nine days to strike a region of Italy that hadn't considered itself particularly quake prone.
By late Tuesday, the death toll stood at 16, with one person missing: a worker at the machinery factory in the small town of San Felice Sul Panaro. An
estimated 350 people also were injured in the 5.8 magnitude quake north of Bologna in Emilia Romagna, one of Italy's more productive regions, agriculturally and industrially.
Factories, barns and churches fell, dealing a second blow to a region where thousands remained homeless from the May 20 temblor, much stronger in intensity, at 6.0 magnitude.
Comment: One has to wonder if the oil and gas drilling in this exact area of Italy, the gas drilling having begun late last year, has anything to do with these earthquakes...
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