Pope to visit L'Aquila tomorrow

From Italian news agency ANSA:

Vatican City, April 27 - Pope Benedict XVI will visit the quake-stricken Abruzzo capital of L'Aquila and a neighbouring village on Tuesday, accompanied by some 400 journalists from around the world.

Despite storm forecasts, the pontiff is due to fly by helicopter from the Vatican to the devastated village of Onna, where around 40 of the 300-strong population, many of them children, died in the April 6 earthquake that left a total of 296 dead.

Benedict will then be driven to L'Aquila, where he will visit Abruzzo's largest Romanesque church, the 13th-century Basilica di Santa Maria di Collemaggio, which was perhaps the best-known building to suffer serious damage...