in Albania, rescue workers were fighting against time while looking for a decade of the most intense earthquake victims in the buildings rubble.
on Monday night, the earthquake known death toll was according to the authorities, 21. About 600 people were injured, nine of them the injuries are life-threatening.
most victims died in a tourist destination well-known seaside town of Durrës 30 kilometers from the capital Tiranasta and Thumanën a small town 40 miles to Tirana on the north side.
the Rubble was on Monday evening rescued over 40 people. Known so far how a lot of people have been left in the rubble stuck.
the Quake struck at the worst possible time in the morning, when people were sleeping in their homes and in hotel rooms.
after Darkness rescue work continued fiercely. Work is hard to collapse because of risk.
People followed the rescue Thumanëssa. Valdrin Xhemaj / EPA
the News agency AP according to Durrës at least three hotels, one apartment building and one villa collapsed in the earthquake. Thumanëssa collapse at least one of the residential apartment building.
the News agency AFP reported, how Thumanëssa rescue workers have been calling on the missing people in the name of the collapsed house.
from time to time at work has been kept quiet moments to hear to hear from the ruins of human voices.
Also happy survival stories is to see. Durrës people cheered the AP, when the rubble was rescued two children.
Durrës and Thumanëssa at least hundreds of people are accommodated at tents for emergency accommodation.
those Affected have been sent 1 900 police officers and 300 soldiers for the rescue. Also, many of albania’s neighboring countries have sent help.
the Earthquake had a magnitude of 6.4. It was year ten of the most powerful in Albania. Wednesday has been declared in Albania as day of mourning.
Sources: AP, AFP
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