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TEHRAN, Nov 26_At least six people have died and 150 been injured after the most powerful earthquake to hit Albania in decades rocked the capital of Tirana and the surrounding region early on Tuesday, causing several buildings to collapse and burying residents in the rubble.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)_The 6.4-magnitude quake struck shortly before 4 a.m. local time (0300 GMT), the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, the second powerful tremor to hit the region in two months.
It was centered 30 km west of Tirana, at a shallow depth of 10 km, the USGS said.
Two women were found in the rubble of an apartment building in the northern village of Thumane, and a man died in the town of Kurbin after panicking and jumping out of a building, a Defense Ministry spokeswoman said.
A dead body was also pulled out from under a collapsed building in Durres, the defense ministry confirmed.
Emergency workers told local media one of those killed was an elderly woman who had managed to save her grandson by cradling him with her body.
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