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L’AQUILA, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI embraced the survivors of Italy’s deadly earthquake Tuesday as he walked through their muddy tent camp and demanded “serious soul-searching” from those responsible for the shoddy construction blamed for many of the 296 deaths.
In his first visit to central Italy since the April 6 quake, Benedict toured the three symbols of destruction that have come to epitomize the region’s grief: the leveled hamlet of Onna, where 40 of the 300 residents died, the crumbled basilica of L’Aquila and the ruins of a university dormitory whose collapse has spurred criminal probes into negligence.
