Word: gibellina
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...elsewhere in a land that has long lived with poverty and the Mafia's cruel rule. Unlike Salaparuta, where all but a few of the villagers had time to flee, scores of people were crushed to death in cascades of masonry in such neighboring towns as Montevago, Gibellina, Santa Margherita di Belice, Salemi and Santa Ninfa. Montevago's lawyer, along with five companions, perished trying to race the tremors in his tiny Fiat. The town's doctor died on his way to save his mother. The earthquake was by far Italy's worst since...
...pulled out alive after more than two days in the wreckage of her home -though later she died of her injuries. The rescue of a 104-year-old woman ended in the same way: dug out from the debris, she succumbed on the way to a hospital. In Gibellina, the dead were piled on top of mossy sandstone tombs in the town cemetery...
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