A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has struck central Croatia, with reports of many injuries and at least one death.
A 12-year-old girl was killed in Petrinja, the prime minister said as he visited the town.
Further deaths have been reported by local media in a village to the south-west of Petrinja, but are yet to be confirmed.
The mayor of Petrinja said around half the town had been destroyed and people were being pulled from the rubble.
The earthquake could be felt in the Croatian capital Zagreb in neighbouring Bosnia and Serbia, and as far away as Italy.
"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 broadcaster N1.
"There is general panic, people are looking for their loved ones," he said. Croatian media said a woman was pulled alive from the rubble of the town hall.
The mayor was speaking to reporters on Tuesday when Petrinja was hit by another tremor.
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There have also been reports of injuries in the nearby town of Sisak. National broadcaster HRT said the local hospital in Sisak was struggling to cope with the number of casualties arriving for treatment.
The GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences reported that the earthquake struck at 11:19 GMT at a depth of 10km (6 miles). Just over an hour later, the area was hit by a weaker tremor.
The Croatian Mountain Rescue Service said that rescuers from across Croatia had travelled to Petrinja to help in the search and rescue efforts.
Our colleagues from Croatian Red Cross are on the ground assisting at the epicentre of the #earthquake at #Petrinja #croatia @crvenikriz_hr pic.twitter.com/tEJ58O8eab
— IFRC Europe (@IFRC_Europe) December 29, 2020
Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who rushed to Petrinja, said: "We have information that one girl was killed. We have no other information on casualties."
"The army is here to help. We will have to move some people from Petrinja because it is unsafe to be here," he added.
Tomislav Fabijanic, head of emergency medical services in Sisak, said many people had been injured in the two towns.
"There are fractures, concussion and some had to be operated on," he said.
A kindergarten also collapsed in Petrinja, but it was empty at the time of the quake. In a village just outside Petrinja, a worker told N1 that nine of its 10 houses were destroyed.
Slovenia has moved to close the Krsko nuclear power plant it co-owns with Croatia.
The US Geological Survey said it was the largest earthquake to occur in Croatia since the introduction of modern seismic instrumentation. An earthquake of similar size occurred in 1880 near Zagreb.
A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit central Croatia on Monday and there are fears of more.
Branko Dragicevic of the Serbian seismological institute told the BBC: "We can expect further quakes."
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2020-12-29 16:00:00Z
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