Amatrice (Italy) April 18 (IANS/AKI) The Mayor of Amatrice has attacked people who pose for selfies on the quake-stricken central Italian mountainside town s ruined buildings.
I invite people to come here to experience our mountains and scenery which are amazing. But no one should come here to take selfies on the rubble Sergio Pirozzi told Italy s TG3 news bulletin.
If they do I ll get rather furious.
Today I caught someone taking a selfie and told him to clear off in no uncertain terms he added.
The medieval town s historic centre was flattened by a magnitude 6.2 earthquake last August that killed 300 people in mountainous central Italy 238 of them in Amatrice.
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