Priest dies in church collapse while trying to rescue statue as second major earthquake to hit Italy in days kills at least 14 others

A priest was among at least 15 people killed today after the second earthquake to strike northern Italy within nine days caused his church to collapse and toppled scores of other buildings.

Father Ivo Martini died after he and a firefighter went inside his church in Rovereto di Novi, near Modena, to recover a statue following this morning's 5.8 magnitude tremor which hit at 9am.

He perished in a subsequent collapse during one of the four other aftershocks measuring above 4.0 that also hit the industrially important Emilia Romagna region during 90 terrifying minutes.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151469/Italy-earthquake-2012-15-dead-5-8-quake-hits-region-7-died-week.html