More than 48-hours after the 6.2 magnitude quake flattened several hillside villages in central Italy hopes are fading of finding anymore survivors. <br /><br /> On Friday morning it was revealed nobody was found alive overnight after firefighters pulled out several bodies. <br /><br /> “Fortunately, all my family are safe, my sister was under rubble for many hours, but she was rescued. It’s a miracle because she lives in the centre and her house completely collapsed,’‘ said one woman in the devastated town of Amatrice. <br /><br /> There are fears the final number of dead could eclipse the earthquake which struck nearby L’Aquila in 2009. That killed more than 300 people. <br /><br /> Despite thousands of emergency staff, rescue efforts have been hampered by hundreds of aftershocks.<br /><br /> Fabio Fulvio a rescue volunteer said: ‘‘We have started to deal with the bodies of victims and we’ll send them to morgues in nearby Rieti and L’Aquila. We’ll start the transfers when the ambulances arrive.’‘<br /><br /> While around 2,500 people are estimated to have been left homeless by the disaster, more than 200 people were killed in the town of Amatrice alone. <br /><br /> The first funerals are expected later on Friday. <br /><br /> From Amatrice, Euronews’ Raquel Garcia said: ‘‘The initial shock in the aftermath of the quake is increasingly being replaced by a mood of resignation for those whose relatives survived but lost everything else. There are others, however, who only have a victim to identify. The mortuaries continue to receive unnamed bodies.’‘<br />
