Croatian Mountain Rescue Service (HGSS) deputy head Neven Putar said on Tuesday evening that the HGSS had rescued six people from under the rubble in the Petrinja area after today's 6.2 earthquake, adding that search and rescue would continue all night.

Speaking to Hina, Putar said HGSS teams “will visit the villages between Petrinja and Sisak to check the situation.”

He said HGSS members were working in the struck area together with all services and organisations, helping the population and pulling people from under the rubble.

HGSS head Josip Granic said 169 HGSS members from 19 stations across Croatia were on the ground, helped by search dogs, and that the entire Civil Protection service was engaged in the rescue operations.

The seventh fatality of today’s earthquake was a man pulled out from under the rubble of a church in Zazina near Sisak.