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		</div><p>Italian premier Mario Draghi has paid tribute to the victims of a 2016 earthquake that devastated entire towns in the centre of the country, where reconstruction efforts have picked up pace after five years of delays.</p>
<p>Mr Draghi laid a commemorative wreath at the monument to victims in Amatrice on the fifth anniversary of the disaster and then took part in a mass at a nearby football field attended by local residents and celebrated by the bishop of nearby Rieti.</p>
<p>“In the past it was slow, but now the situation is different,” Mr Draghi told a committee of residents. “Reconstruction work is proceeding faster. I’m here to bring you the confidence and commitment of the government.”</p>
<p>A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Amatrice and nearby towns at 3.36am on August 24 2016, the first of more than a dozen that rattled much of central Italy over the following months and left thousands of people homeless.</p>
<p>Of all the nearly 300 people killed in the quake, some 237 were buried under the rubble of Amatrice, a medieval hill town that is the birthplace of Italy’s famous Amatriciana pasta dish.</p>
<p>Government officials vowed to rebuild Amatrice’s crumbled historic centre and other nearby towns, but Italy’s notorious bureaucracy slowed the effort to a crawl.</p>
<p>Recently, though, the government-appointed commissioner for reconstruction announced that the project was speeding up amid a streamlined process to approve plans and funding.</p>
<p>In a June update on the status of the reconstruction, the commissioner’s office reported that 12,000 homes had been built and work was under way at 5,000 more sites.</p>
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