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Death toll grows to 275 in Italy Quake

April 9, 2009
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Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy today as the first funerals got underway for victims of the country’s devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 275 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday. As more bodies were pulled from the rubble, some of the 28,000...

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