Grief erupts in Italy as nation honors, buries quake dead

Sunday, August 28, 2016

ASCOLI PICENO, Italy -- Mourners in Italy prayed, hugged, wept and even applauded as coffins carrying victims of the country's devastating earthquake passed by at a state funeral Saturday, grieving as one nation after three days of trying to save as many people as possible.

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