Girl killed, many injured as 6.4 quake hits Croatia
An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck a town in central Croatia yesterday, killing a child, injuring many people and wrecking houses, officials said.
Rescuers tried to pull people from the rubble of collapsed buildings, television footage showed, and army troops were sent into the area to help.
The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said the quake hit at a depth of 10 km (6 miles). The epicentre was in the town of Petrinja, 50 km south of the Croatian capital Zagreb.
Tomislav Fabijanic, head of emergency medical services in nearby Sisak, said many people had been injured in Petrinja and in Sisak.
N1 news channel quoted a Petrinja town official as saying that a 12-year old child had been killed, but gave no details.
Piles of stone, bricks and tiles littered the streets in the aftermath of the quake, and cars parked in the road were also damaged by falling debris. Patients were evacuated from the Sisak hopital because buildings were damaged.
A worker who had been fixing a roof in a village outside Petrinja told N1 that the quake threw him on the ground. Nine of the 10 houses in the village were destroyed, he said.
The quake was felt in Zagreb, where people rushed onto the streets, some of which were strewn with broken roof tiles and other debris. It also shook parts of neighbouring Bosnia and Serbia.
In Slovenia, the STA news agency said the country's sole nuclear power plant, which is 100 km (60 miles) from the epicentre, was shut down as a precaution.
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