Rescuers Hold Out Hope For Survivors Of Albanian Quake
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 28, 2019 | 09:34 PM
Rescue teams in Albania clinged to hope on Thursday of finding missing people in "survival pockets" amid the mountains of rubble wrought by an earthquake that has claimed more than 40 lives
The 6.4 magnitude quake, the deadliest in decades, tore down buildings near the Adriatic coast while people were sleeping just before 4:00 am (0300 GMT) on Tuesday.
Teams from around Europe have arrived to help shovel away slabs of collapsed apartments and search beneath the wreckage with dogs and specialised cameras.
On Thursday afternoon a new victim was pulled from the ruins of a hotel in the hard-hit port city of Durres, the defence ministry said.
A distraught relative watching the operation fainted as the man's body was carried away by emergency workers in a yellow bag.
Yet rescuers kept hopes alive for survival stories.
"There may be hope for up to eight or ten days" for victims to live after an earthquake, Captain Joel Leroy, a French rescuer, told AFP.
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