Rescuers keep working in Albania as death toll hits 46
Earthquake rescue teams in Albania clung to hope of finding missing people in"survival pockets" rubble, as the death toll rose to 46 with some entire families found dead beneath their crumbled homes.
European and Albanian search teams also pulled a dead body from the rubble of a hotel along Durres's beach on the Adriatic Sea as they continued looking for survivors of Tuesday's magnitude 6.4 tremor. Lala's paralysed older brother remains trapped under the building, built on reclaimed marshland in Durres, the country's main port. His other daughter of eight, 79-year-old mother and one niece have all been confirmed killed in the disaster.
The quake, centred 30 km west of the capital Tirana, was felt across the Balkans and in the southern Italian region of Puglia across the Adriatic Sea.State of emergency
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