Recovery crews search frantically for Italy quake survivors

At least 159 people have been killed and more than 360 injured in an earthquake that hit a mountainous area of central Italy.

A street in Amatrice, central Italy, after the quake Source: AAP

The magnitude-6.2 quake struck at 3:36 in the morning local time, 100 kilometres northeast of Rome, not far from Perugia.