A strong earthquake in central Croatia has killed at least six people, injured many and caused a significant destruction in Petrinja, a town southeast of the capital Zagreb.
The earthquake, which downed phone lines and sent Croatians into a state of shock, was felt throughout the country on Tuesday, as well as in neighbouring Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and as far away as Graz in southern Austria.
Croatian Defense Minister Tomo Medved said the death toll reached six, including a 12-year-old girls death in Petrinja and five more near Glina.
“We have a lot of victims. In the vicinity of Glina, in the town of Majske Poljane, five deaths have been confirmed so far. With a girl from Petrinja, a total of six people died in this devastating earthquake,” Medved told reporters in Glina.
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