The death toll from Monday's quake in L'Aquila has risen to 207 and rescue services have set a 48-hour deadline for locating the remaining six missing people, Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Tuesday.
Rescue teams were focusing their efforts on retrieving four teenagers believed to be in the ruins of the Abruzzo city's youth centre, the premier said.
He said 150 people had been pulled from the rubble alive and more than 7,000 rescuers from 12 Italian regions were at work.
Field camps for 14,500 survivors would be completed by Tuesday evening, he said.
The 6.2 magnitude quake left 17,000 homeless, many of whom have already been taken to hotels on the Abruzzo coast.
''All the rescue squads and especially the fire teams have been great. We must thank and admire them,'' Berlusconi told reporters.
The premier thanked countries from around the world including the United States and Iran who had offered help but said Italy could cope.
On Monday the government earmarked a 30-million-euro emergency package and started drawing on European Union funds that would reach into the hundreds of millions.
