Nearly 24 hours after a magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck central Italy early Wednesday, killing at least 247, aftershocks continued and the odd survivor was still being pulled from the rubble.
At 5:17 a.m. local time Thursday morning -- nearly 26 hours after the quake first struck -- central Italy was rocked by a 4.7 magnitude aftershock 4.3 miles east of Norcia, according to the USGS.
On Wednesday night, about 17 hours after the quake struck at 3:36 a.m. local time -- with the towns of Amatrice and Accumoli, about 60 miles northeast of Rome, being the hardest hit -- firefighters pulled a 10-year-old girl alive from the rubble in Pescara del Tronto.
"You can hear something under here. Quiet, quiet," one rescue worker said, according to The AP, before soon urging her on: "Come on, Giulia, come on, Giulia."
Cheers broke out when she was pulled out.
But, Christian Bianchetti, a volunteer from Rieti who was working in devastated Amatrice where flood lights were set up so the rescue could continue through the night, admits that the girl's recovery was not the norm. "Unfortunately, 90 percent we pull out are dead, but some make it, that's why we are here," he told The AP.
And Italy's health minister, Beatrice Lorenzin, visiting the devastated area, said many of the victims were children
Italy's civil protection agency updated the death toll from 159 to 247 early Thursday morning. Of the 247 dead, 190 are in the province of Rieti and 57 are in the province of Ascoli Piceno. The agency also reported that at least 368 others were injured.