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These are images from inside Hotel Rigopiano...Overnight it was devasted by an avalanche...Rescuers are scrambling to find survivors...AMBIANCEAt least 20 guests and seven staff were believed to be in the building at the time.DLS MAPHotel Rigopiano is in the village of Farindola in the Abrutso region...Four quakes hit the area in the span of four hours Wednesday...the most powerful, with magnitude up to 5.7 tremor striking 18km west in Monté-realé.Hours later a wall of snow and debris hit the hotel the four-star spa hotelLeaving only the roof of the four storey building visible from above...Italian news reports said that some guests sent text messages to emergency numbers saying they were trapped inside.AMBIANCEEarly morning Thursday two people were found alive outside. They were taken to hospital, one suffering from hypothermia.But efforts have been hampered by the unusually severe winter weather... One official has said up to five metres of snow that had fallen in recent daysBlocking roads and making it thus far impossible for ambulances to reach the hotel.