By Ella Ide, Agence France-Presse Nowhere was hit harder by the earthquake that brought death and devastation to a remote corner of central Italy this week than Saletta. Photo courtesy of AFP/Mario Laporta And if you listen to the locals, the tiny mountain hamlet is never going to recover from the wounds it has suffered. In a region which already has its fair share of abandoned villages, that is now the future beckoning for this one, they say. Fewer than 20 people live full-time in the picturesque hamlet. On Wednesday, with the population temporarily swollen at the height of Italy’s summer holiday season, 22 people died. Stefania Nobile, a petite, white-haired resident, survived. But she doubts the village will. “The place has been razed to the ground, there’s nothing left, nothing,” she told AFPTV. “It’s a tragedy, there’s nothing left and we don’t think it has a future,” she said of the [...]
