Prime Minister MATTEO RENZI has also pledged about forty-two million pounds for rebuilding.
Reports say at least two hundred and sixty-seven people are now known to have died and four hundred others injured.
Meanwhile; hundreds of aftershocks have been slowing down efforts of some five thousand rescue workers.
A fresh magnitude four-point-seven tremor struck in the early hours of today, coming after another magnitude four point three tremor recorded yesterday afternoon.
