Italy Recovering After Yet Another Earthquake

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Published October 31, 2016 at 12:33 PM EDT

Monks walk in front of the Cathedral of St. Benedict in Norcia, central Italy, Italy, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. (Gregorio Borgia/AP)

Thousands of people are homeless after the fourth major earthquake in Italy in the last three months. Sunday’s quake was a magnitude 6.6 and struck near the central region of the country where nearly 300 people were killed by a quake in August.

Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson checks in with Associated Press reporter Colleen Barry, who’s in the region.

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Colleen Barry, Associated Press reporter based in Milan. She tweets @collbarry.

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