Rescue teams shoveled away debris in search of victims as night fell after the mid-day tremor, while the European Union announced that more help was on its way. ‘A huge ruin’Petrinja’s mayor Darinko Dumbovic said a kindergarten was among the buildings that collapsed from the force of the quake. Josip Horvat, a 44-year-old artist, said that when Tuesday’s tremor struck he was fixing a friend’s chimney that had been damaged the previous day. Tuesday’s quake also shook the capital Zagreb, where panicked residents gathered in the streets as the shocks tore the tiles off roofs. Zagreb is still rebuilding from a 5.3-magnitude quake that struck in March, the most powerful to hit the capital in decades.

Source: Manila Times December 30, 2020 16:07 UTC