Powerful Quake Kills 21 in Albania as Buildings Bury Residents

27 November 2019 13:39 WIB

Emergency personnel work at the site of a collapsed building in Durres, after an earthquake shook Albania, November 26, 2019. At least 21 people were killed when the most powerful earthquake to strike Albania in decades shook the capital Tirana and the country's west and north on Tuesday, tearing down buildings and burying residents under rubble. REUTERS/Florion Goga

27 November 2019 00:00 WIB

Emergency personnel work at the site of a collapsed building in Durres, after an earthquake shook Albania, November 26, 2019. Residents, some carrying babies, fled apartment buildings in Tirana and the western port of Durres after the 6.4 magnitude quake struck shortly before 4 a.m. (0300 GMT). REUTERS/Florion Goga

27 November 2019 00:00 WIB

Military and emergency personnel carry an injured man on a stretcher near a damaged building in Thumane, after an earthquake shook Albania, November 26, 2019. The Balkan country was jolted by 250 aftershocks after the main tremor, Defence Minister Olta Xhacka said, two of them of magnitude 5, testing strained nerves. REUTERS/Flatos Bytyci

27 November 2019 00:00 WIB

Emergency personnel work at the site of a collapsed building in Durres, after an earthquake shook Albania, November 26, 2019. At least 21 people were killed when the most powerful earthquake to strike Albania in decades shook the capital Tirana and the country's west and north on Tuesday, tearing down buildings and burying residents under rubble. REUTERS/Florion Goga

27 November 2019 00:00 WIB

Emergency personnel work at the site of a collapsed building in Durres, after an earthquake shook Albania, November 26, 2019. At least 21 people were killed when the most powerful earthquake to strike Albania in decades shook the capital Tirana and the country's west and north on Tuesday, tearing down buildings and burying residents under rubble. REUTERS/Florion Goga

27 November 2019 00:00 WIB

People watch emergency personnel as they work with a crane, next to a collapsed building, in Durres, after an earthquake shook Albania, November 26, 2019. At least 21 people were killed when the most powerful earthquake to strike Albania in decades shook the capital Tirana and the country's west and north on Tuesday, tearing down buildings and burying residents under rubble. REUTERS/Florion Goga

27 November 2019 00:00 WIB