TIRANA, Nov 27 /ATA/ – The death toll from a powerful earthquake that rattled Albania on Tuesday morning rose to 27 as rescuers searched through the night for survivors in the rubble of devastated buildings in Durres and Thumane.
The Ministry of Defence said Wednesday that the latest official data confirm that number of people who lost their lives increased to 27, 12 in the coastal city of, 14 in the town of Thumane, and 1 in Lezha.
Albanian and international search and rescue teams are carefully working to pull potential survivors out of rubble of a toppled hotel and an apartment building in Durres and Thumane following the 6.3 magnitude quake that hit the country.
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