Pic shows: Scenes from inside the snow filled remote, four-storey Hotel Rigopiano in the town of Farindola in the central Abruzzo region

Part of the hotel was moved 10 metres from its foundations after the avalanche

Up to 30 people are feared to have died after an avalanche believed to have been triggered by an earthquake hit a spa hotel in Italy.

It buried the remote, four-storey Hotel Rigopiano in the town of Farindola in the central Abruzzo region on Wednesday night.

The top floor and roof of the complex were barely visible above a thick blanket of snow on the Gran Sasso mountain.



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