Morocco's interior ministry said that authorities are 'mobilised to speed up rescue operations and evacuate the injured.'
Morocco's interior ministry said that authorities are "mobilised to speed up rescue operations and evacuate the injured."An aftershock of magnitude 4.5 rattled already-traumatised residents in the same region on Sunday. / Photo: AFP
Using heavy equipment and even their bare hands, rescuers in Morocco have stepped up efforts to find survivors of a devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people and flattened villages. The first foreign rescuers flew in to help after the North African country's strongest-ever quake killed at least 2,012 people and injured more than 2,000, many seriously, according to the official figures.The mountain village of Tafeghaghte, 60 kilometres from Marrakesh, was almost entirely destroyed, with very few buildings still standing.
Amid the debris, civilian rescuers and members of Morocco's armed forces searched for survivors and the bodies of the dead. "Everyone is gone! My heart is broken. I am inconsolable," cried Zahra Benbrik, 62, who said she had lost 18 relatives, with only the body of her brother still trapped.In the village of Amizmiz, near Tafeghaghte, a backhoe dragged away the heaviest pieces of rubble before rescuers dug into the dusty debris with their bare hands to remove a body that appeared to be under a quilt.
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