Albania races against time to find quake survivors
Albanian soldiers, together with an Italian search and rescue team, searching for a family of six under an earthquake rubble in Durres, Albania. – EPA pic, November 28, 2019.
EMERGENCY workers yesterday pulled dust-covered corpses from the ruins of an earthquake that has claimed 30 lives in Albania, as aftershocks hampered the second day of search efforts for survivors. The 6.4-magnitude earthquake that rattled the Balkan state early Tuesday morning was the most powerful and damaging in decades.
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