At least 105 people were injured in the strong earthquake that hit Albania on Saturday.
This is shown by the preliminary data announced at the extraordinary session of the government held at midnight.
More than 290 houses were also damaged in the earthquake, and cracks appeared in 20 residential buildings, the ATA agency reported.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama canceled his trip to New York for the annual UN meeting due to the earthquake.
At the government session, it was decided that the police should be on high alert in order to control the situation after the earthquake, which was most felt in Tirana and Durrës, reports Tanjug.
After the first earthquake with a magnitude of 5,8 on the Richter scale, another strong earthquake struck the area of Albania around midnight with a magnitude of five with an epicenter near Durrës, and then a series of weaker earthquakes were felt.
The epicenter of the earthquake was in the Adriatic Sea, at a depth of ten kilometers.
Earthquakes were also felt in Montenegro.
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