Press: Czech student amongst the dead in Italian earthquake

A Czech student has died in an Italian earthquake which has killed at least 91 people, and injured 1,500, the Italian news agency ANSA reported on Monday. The report has yet to be confirmed by the Czech Foreign Ministry. Earlier, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had suggested that at least one Czech was amongst the dead. The earthquake happened early on Monday morning in and around the mountain village of L’Aquila, in central Italy. It measured 6.3 on the Richter scale.