Baby rescued from rubble on quake-hit Italian resort island

August 22, 2017 at 4:35 a.m. | Updated August 22, 2017 at 4:35 a.m.

by Associated Press

This handout picture provided by Italian Carabinieri police shows rescuers at work among damaged houses in the island of Ischia, southern Italy, Tuesday, August 22, 2017. An earthquake rattled the Italian resort island of Ischia at the peak of tourist season Monday night, killing at least one person and trapping a half dozen others, including children, under collapsed homes. Italy's national vulcanology agency put the initial magnitude at 3.6, though it revised it to a 4.0 sustained magnitude with a shallow depth of 5 kilometers (3 miles) in the waters just off the island. (Italian Carabinieri, HO/ANSA via AP)
This handout picture provided by Italian Carabinieri police shows rescuers at work among damaged houses in the island of Ischia, southern Italy, Tuesday, August 22, 2017. An earthquake rattled the Italian resort island of Ischia at the peak of tourist season Monday night, killing at least one person and trapping a half dozen others, including children, under collapsed homes. Italy's national vulcanology agency put the initial magnitude at 3.6, though it revised it to a 4.0 sustained magnitude with a shallow depth of 5 kilometers (3 miles) in the waters just off the island. (Italian Carabinieri, HO/ANSA via AP)

MILAN (AP) - Firefighters in Italy have freed a 7-month-old baby from the rubble of a house where he had been trapped with his family following a 4.0-magnitude quake on the Italian resort island of Ischia.

At least one person - an elderly woman who was inside a collapsed church - was killed in the quake just before 9 p.m. (1900 GMT) Monday. Another 39 were injured.

Firefighters pulled the baby from the rubble some seven hours after the quake, and are continuing work on rescuing his two brothers.

Sky TG24 said that the two boys, 5 and 7 years old, were given bottles of water early Tuesday and were responding to rescuers.

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