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President Zoran Milanovic and Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic walk past damaged buildings in Petrinja (AP) He said the army has 500 places ready in barracks to house people, while others will be accommodated in nearby hotels and other available places. “No-one must stay out in the cold tonight,” the prime minister said. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said on Twitter that she had spoken to Mr Plenkovic and instructed an envoy to travel to Croatia as soon as possible. As a Mediterranean country, Croatia is prone to earthquakes, but not big ones. The last strong quake str...

Powerful quake tears down buildings in central Croatia 318 ZAGREB, Dec 29, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – A powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake tore down buildings in central Croatia on Tuesday, striking near the town of Petrinja where rescue teams raced to comb through the rubble. The tremor, one of the strongest to rock Croatia in recent years, collapsed rooftops in Petrinja, home to some 20,000 people, and left the streets strewn with bricks and other debris. “We are pulling people from the cars, we don’t know if we have dead or injured,” Darinko Dumbovic, the mayor of Petrinja, told regional broa...

12-year-old girl dead after magnitude 6.3 earthquake strikes Croatia By Associated Press ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - A strong earthquake hit central Croatia on Tuesday, causing major damage to homes and other buildings in a town southeast of the capital. Authorities said a girl was killed and at least 20 people were injured in the quake. The European Mediterranean Seismological Center said a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit 46 kilometers (28 miles) southeast of Zagreb. Initial reports said the earthquake caused wide damage, collapsing roofs, building facades and even some entire buildings. The same ar...

Emergency teams used rescue dogs while looking for survivors, while family members looked on in despair. “The centre of Petrinja as it used to be no longer exists,” Croatia’s state HRT television reported, saying people remained inside collapsed buildings. “My town has been completely destroyed. We have dead children,” Petrinja mayor Darinko Dumbovic said in a statement broadcast by HRT TV. “This is like Hiroshima – half of the city no longer exists.” Croatian prime minister Andrej Plenkovic and other government ministers arrived in Petrinja after the earthquake. “The bigges...

Xinhua news agency reported local police as confirming that five people were killed in the Petrinja quake. At least 20 injured people have been hospitalised and a rescue team is searching for people trapped in the rubble. Media reports showed chaotic scenes of collapsed roofs, buildings and smashed cars in the affected area. "My town has been completely ruined. We have a dead child. It cannot be described. This is like Hiroshima," Petrinja Mayor Darinko Dumbovic told national television. Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, President Zoran Milanovic and other ministers visited the epicentre, shor...