ROME, Aug. 22 -- Emergency teams raced against time on Tuesday to rescue victims of a 4.0-magnitude earthquake that hit the Italian southern island of Ischia on Monday evening.
The temblor killed at least two women, and wounded 39 people, according to latest reports.
Rescuers kept working all throughout the night to save three young brothers from under the rubble of a collapsed house. The children were reportedly aged at 6, 4 and 7 months old.
The youngest child was pulled out alive at about 4 a.m. local time, the Civil Protection agency said.
The second child was rescued around mid-morning on Tuesday. Their parents have both been saved, the Fire Department wrote on Twitter.
The third brother was also reportedly pulled out alive as of press times.
The quake struck at 8:57 p.m. local time at a depth of about 5 km off Ischia, which lies in the Gulf of Naples, the Italian National Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (INGV) said. The INGV had earlier put the magnitude at 3.6, then revised it up to 4.0.
Of the two victims so far, an old woman was killed by falling debris in the collapse of a church in the municipality of Casamicciola Terme, the authorities confirmed.
The second one remained trapped under the rubble of a collapse building, and her body was yet to be recovered.
The quake destroyed at least six buildings, and temporarily cut power lines on Sunday night, Ansa news agency reported.
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