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A strong aftershock has struck L'Aquila, a day after 235 people died in a devastating earthquake in the medieval Italian town.
Al Jazeera's Nazinine Moshiri, reporting from L'Aquila, said Tuesday's aftershock killed a fireman, who died of a stroke, and brought fear back to the quake-battered town.
The 5.6 magnitude aftershock caused two churches to collapse and put historical buildings still standing after Monday's quake at risk.
Earlier aftershocks on Tuesday had already impeded rescue efforts in central Italy as the toll rose to at least 235, with 15 still missing, according to civil protection officials. More than 1,000 people were injured.
Survivors found
Rescue workers had earlier celebrated after finding alive a 98-year-old woman who had been trapped for 30 hours and a 20-year-old woman who had been under the rubble of a four-storey building for 42 hours.
Maria D'Antuono, the 98-year-old, who was said to be in good condition, told the ANSA news agency that she had whiled away the time by "doing crochet".
Rescuers were trying to reach Eleonora Calesini, the 20-year-old who had a leg pinned by a concrete beam and endured nearly two days without water, when Tuesday's big aftershock struck.
But a pair of fallen concrete pillars that had created a survival space for the student held, and 90 minutes later, rescuers pulled her conscious from the wreckage.
Addressing a news conference in L'Aquila on Tuesday, Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's prime minister who has declared a state of emergency in the central Abruzzo region, said 150 people had so far been pulled alive from collapsed structures.
Saying that the government had deployed 7,000 rescue workers, he said that the search would go on for at least two more days.
Cold comfort
Survivors of the quake and aftershocks continued to shelter in tents and formed long lines to receive food donations on Tuesday.
The civil protection agency said that tens of thousands of people had been made homeless by the magnitude 6.2 quake which damaged 10,000 buildings, leveling many.
Thousands of people had spent Monday night in tents, makeshift shelters and cars amid cold and driving rain.
Some people took refuge in army barracks, stadiums and sports centers as temperatures during the night dropped to about four degrees Celsius in the Abruzzo region.
The earthquake struck at 3:30am (01:30GMT) on Monday, affecting 26 towns and cities within a 30km radius of L'Aquila, the epicenter.
L'Aquila, where most of the dead are, has a population of 68,000 and lies about 100km northeast of Rome, the capital.
The neighboring villages of Villa Sant'Angelo and Borgo di Castelnuovo were almost completely destroyed.
PHOTO CAPTION
An aerial view of Santa Maria Paganica church in L'Aquila, central Italy, on Tuesday, April 7, 2009, a day after a powerful earthquake struck the Abruzzo region.
Al-Jazeera
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