Rome: Italian Premier Mario Draghi paid Tuesday tribute to nearly 300 victims of the 2016 earthquake that destroyed the entire city in Central Italy, where reconstruction efforts took steps after five years.
Draghi placed a warning bouquet at the monument to the victims in Amatrice at a five-year anniversary of the disaster and then took part in the masses on the nearest soccer field attended by the locals and was celebrated by the nearest Bishop Rieti.
The 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck amrice and the closest cities at 3:36 a.m.
On August 24, 2016, the first of more than a dozen Tembbor who shook many of the middle Italians over the following months and left thousands of people who lost their homes.
Of all the people who were killed in the earthquake, around 237 were buried under AMATRICE debris, a Middle Ages Hill City which was the birthplace of the famous Funiciana Pasta dish in Italy.
Government officials vowed to rebuild Amrice’s destroyed historic center and other closest cities, but the famous Italian bureaucracy slowed down crawling efforts.
However, recently, the commissioner appointed by the government for reconstruction announced that this project accelerates in the midst of an efficient process to approve plans and funding.
In June updates about the status of reconstruction, the Office of the Commissioner reported that 12,000 houses had been built and worked on 5,000 more sites.
Until now, residents and business owners have requested a reconstruction fund of 5.4 billion euros; One third of 10,000 requests authorized until now received approval this year, the report said.