Italy Marks Day of Mourning; Prosecutors Threaten Quake Victims' Families

Italy marked a day of national mourning Saturday for the 290 people confirmed killed so far by Wednesday’s powerful quake that devastated four towns in the mountainous heartland of the country and rattled the central agricultural regions. But as political leaders gathered for a state funeral for 35 of the dead in the city of Ascoli Piceno, which didn’t suffer any serious damage itself from the midweek temblor but felt the quake, recriminations started to fly over the devastation caused by...

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