African migrants hoping to start a new life in Italy after risking their lives crossing the Mediterranean headed to the area of this week's earthquake, helping local people who lost everything in the disaster. Wearing bright orange overalls, the group of about 20 migrants from a temporary hostel about 50km away blended in on Friday with other volunteers from all over Italy."We need to help the people here," a 20-year-old Beninese, who gave his name only as Abdullah, said on the outskirts of Pescara del Tronto, one of the devastated villages.The migrants helped to prepare the ground for tents and cleared a field for helicopter landings.story_article_left1During a break, the migrants, who are all Muslims, knelt to pray near one of the tents."They wanted to do something, so we helped make it happen," said Letizia Dellabarba of the Human Solidarity Group charity that brought the migrants to Pescara del Tronto.Hopes of finding more survivors faded on Friday, three days after the powerful quake hit central Italy, with the death toll rising to 267.Italy has taken in more than 420,000 boat migrants, most from Africa, since the start of 2014. Right-wing parties have lambasted the government for not halting the flow.Even the tragedy of the earthquake did not temper some anti-immigrant sentiment in the country.Under a headline reading "Criminal State", the right-wing newspaper Libero ran two pictures on its front page - one showing Italian quake victims sleeping on the floor of a basketball court and another showing smiling African immigrants in front of a hotel where the government is putting them up.Dellabarba said most of the migrants who helped in the quake zone were from Burkina Faso, Niger and Senegal and had arrived in Italy in unseaworthy boats run by human traffickers.Thousands of migrants have died trying to make the crossing.All of the group were seeking asylum in Italy, she added...