Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama appealed today for financial assistance from the international community to help the country recover from the devastating 6,4 magnitude earthquake that killed 51 people and left thousands homeless.
Rama said that the government is revising the budget, but that it will be impossible to do everything without the support of international partners.
In the earthquake that hit the Albanian Adriatic coast on Tuesday, November 26, 3.000 people were also injured, and thousands more were left homeless.
The hardest hit areas are the city of Durrës, a popular summer resort for Albanians located 33 kilometers west of the capital Tirana, and the nearby northern city of Tuman.
Civil engineers from EU countries and the USA together with local experts began to assess the effects of the earthquake.
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