Eight persons have been confirmed dead from the earthquake that hit Albania early in the morning today. Two other persons are under the ruins of a hotel in the coastal area of Golem in the district of Durrës, some 30 kilometers west of the Albanian capital Tirana.

Three persons lost their lives after a building collapsed in Durrës, one of them was a little girl.

One person in Thumana lost his life after he fell from the balcony amidst the quakes.