RESCUERS TRY TO SAVE TRAPPED TODDLERS

Italian rescue teams were trying on Wednesday to save six family members, including twin toddlers, trapped when their house collapsed after Albania’s worst earthquake in decades.

The death toll from Tuesday’s quake rose to 30 as rescue workers dug through the remains of the four-storey house in the Adriatic port city of Durres.

Nine members of the Lala family were initially trapped but a boy of 17 was pulled out alive on Tuesday and the bodies of a 79-year-old woman and an eight-yearold girl have been recovered.

The rescue workers, watched by relatives and the twins’ father, believe two girls aged 18 months, two boys of six and seven, a 16-year-old girl and a disabled man of 52 are still under the rubble.

In addition to the 30 dead, the Defence Ministry said 650 people had been injured and 20 were missing.