FARINDOLA, ITALY — A victim of the avalanche that struck central Italy last week said she ate only snow and ice to survive for more than two days trapped inside a hotel. <br /> <br />Giorgia Galassi, 22, and her boyfriend Vincenzo Forti, 25, are among nine survivors, including four children, who have been rescued so far, BBC News reported. <br /> <br />Galassi was sitting on a sofa with her boyfriend in the lobby of the Rigopiano Hotel when the avalanche hit last Wednesday. <br /> <br />The avalanche weighed 120,000 tons and hit the hotel at 60 miles per hour, according to officials. <br /> <br />With the hotel completely buried under snow, Galassi said it was pitch dark in the lobby and no sound could be heard from outside. <br /> <br />Shocked and confused, Galassi thought the hotel had been uprooted and pushed further down into the earth. However, she came to realize that the snow-damaged lobby had become a dome with four caverns. <br /> <br />Galassi said she heard an injured man who was in pain, and a woman call out to her daughter. In the lobby, voices echoed. <br /> <br />There was nothing to eat inside the hotel, so Galassi and Forti survived by eating ice and snow. They were rescued on Saturday, 58 hours after the avalanche hit. <br /> <br />Four magnitude 5.2 and stronger earthquakes struck near the town of Amatrice on Wednesday, triggering the avalanche that buried the hotel. <br /> <br />On Monday, the death toll from the disaster stood at six, with 23 people still missing, Reuters reported.
