This is the emotional moment Italian firefighters pulled a 10-year-old girl alive the from rubble, 17 hours after a massive earthquake that killed 247 people.
Dramatic footage showed crews cheer as they lifted the youngster from piles of rubbish following their rescue mission in Pescara del Tronto, central Italy.
One rescue worker could be heard saying: "You can hear something under here. Quiet, quiet.”
He then said to the girl: "Come on, Giulia, come on, Giulia."
The hunt came after fire crews received reports of three people trapped in a hard-to-reach area on the town 125 kilometres northeast of Rome.
The magnitude 6 quake struck in the early hours of yesterday morning and was felt across a broad swath of the country.
Buildings were razed to the ground in the worst affected towns of Amatrice, Accumoli and Pescara del Tronto.
Emergency services and volunteers raced against time looking for survivors overnight but the death toll rose to 247, with 190 people injured.
Aided by sniffer dogs, crews using their bare hands pulled chunks of cement, rock and metal apart from mounds of rubble where homes once stood, searching for signs of life.
The civil protection agency set up tent cities around the affected towns to accommodate the homeless.
In Amatrice, many elderly people and young children spent the night inside a local sports facility.
Premier Matteo Renzi, visited the quake-affected zone yesterday and promised to rebuild and guarantee "a reconstruction that will allow residents to live in these communities, to relaunch these beautiful towns that have a wonderful past that will never end."
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