An avalanche has buried a mountainside hotel in central Italy, and civil protection officials said that at least 30 people were missing, news agencies reported on Thursday.
The avalanche came after earthquakes struck the region on Wednesday, prompting officials to close schools and the subway system in Rome, about 100 miles to the southwest, as a precaution.
The epicenters of the four strong earthquakes were in central Italy, which has been hit by deadly quakes with increasing frequency in recent years.
Officials registered more than 100 aftershocks on Wednesday.
Sky TG24 television said that fatalities had been reported at the Hotel Rigopiano, which is described on its website as a “posh mountainside hotel resort with spa” in the town of Farindola, nestled in the mountains overlooking the Adriatic Sea.
Three quakes in central Italy last year killed nearly 300 people in and around the medieval town of Amatrice, where the tower of one of the town’s churches was destroyed by temblors on Wednesday.
L’Aquila was devastated in 2009 by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people.
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