Italy Earthquake

Rescue workers search for victims in a collapsed school in San Giuliano di Puglia, near Campobasso, central Italy, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2002. A strong earthquake rocked central and southern Italy, trapping about 50 children in a nursery school. At least 27 people, many of them children, were killed.

A carabinieri paramilitary policeman rescues a young girl from the rubble of the collapsed school in San Giuliano di Puglia Oct. 31 in this image from television. A strong earthquake rocked central and southern Italy, and leveled their classrooms during a Halloween party.

Rescuers carry out a child, condition unknown, who was trapped under the rubble of a collapsed school in San Giuliano di Puglia Oct. 31. Rescuers used cranes, sledgehammers, blowtorches and their bare hands to reach the trapped youngsters.

Rescuers continue work at the San Giuliano di Puglia's school in this television image Oct. 31 after a major quake hit southern Italy, trapping some 50 children in a nursery school when the roof collapsed on their Halloween party.

Two women react as they watch the rescue operations at the site of a school collapse in San Giuliano di Puglia on Oct. 31. The quake caused a collapse at a school complex which had nursery-, elementary- and middle-school students.

Rescuers search the rubble of a collapsed school in San Giuliano di Puglia Oct. 31. The magnitude 5.4 quake hit the Campobasso area northeast of Naples in the Molise region at 11:33 a.m. Thursday.

A boy is rushed to emergency workers after being rescued from under the debris of the collapsed school near Campobasso Oct. 31. News reports say at least 27 people were killed and 3,000 people in the region were left homeless.

Rescuers remove a body early Friday, Nov. 1, from the rubble left following the collapse of an elementary school building in southern Italy. The bodies of the dead were being housed in a makeshift morgue at the town's sports center.

Three women weep Friday, Nov. 1, 2002 following an earthquake that hit S.Giuliano di Puglia, Italy. An elementary school building collapsed when the quake struck Oct. 31, with at least 21 school children feared dead.

Rescuers and firefighters remove the rubble Nov. 1 as residents look on, at bottom, after the collapse of an elementary school building. The yellow nursery school collapsed entirely on itself, trapping 56 children, their teachers and two janitors inside as they celebrated Halloween, an American import that has become increasingly popular in Italy.