PENNE, Italy:  Rescuers pulled four people alive from an avalanche-hit Italian hotel on Saturday and clung on to hopes of saving some of the 23 people still missing three days after the disaster struck.

Saturday's rescues lifted the total number of survivors to 11. But with no new signs of life detected, any possible survivors still trapped under the snow-covered rubble were facing a fourth night in the freezing mountains of central Italy.

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