AFP, TIRANANine people died and more than 600 were injured in Albania after the strongest earthquake in decades rocked the Balkan country early yesterday, destroying buildings and burying victims in rubble. The earthquake was the strongest to hit the region since 1926, Albanian seismologist Rrapo Ormeni told a local TV station. In Thumane, about a dozen rescuers used an excavator to dig through a mountain of debris in search of possible victims. Thoma Nika, a 58-year-old who lived in the building, said there were at least six people under the rubble. It was described by authorities as the strongest earthquake in the last 20 to 30 years.

Source: Taipei Times November 26, 2019 15:56 UTC