Marrakesh, Morocco – AFP Hopes dimmed on Tuesday in Morocco’s search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. Search-and-rescue teams from the kingdom and from abroad kept digging through the rubble of broken mud-brick homes, hop...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Morocco has jumped to 2,901 people, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. In a statement, the ministry said 5,530 other people were injured in the magnitude 7 earthquake that jolted the North African country late Friday. The quake was the strongest to […]
NEW YORK (AA) – About 100,000 children have been affected by the powerful earthquake that struck Morocco last Friday, the UN Children’s Agency (UNICEF) said Monday. ”While UNICEF doesn’t yet know the exact number of children killed and injured, the latest estimates from 2022 indicate that children represent almost a third of ...
ANKARA (AA) – France has dismissed reports that Morocco rejected Paris’ offer of financial assistance to help people affected by the massive earthquake, saying the North African country is sovereign and can choose which peer’s assistance to accept. “Morocco, which is a sovereign country… chose to prioritize the arrival ...
Talat Nyacoub, Morocco — AFP Moroccan rescuers supported by newly-arrived foreign teams faced an intensifying race against time to dig out any survivors from the rubble of mountain villages, on the third day after the country’s strongest-ever earthquake. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck the Atlas mountains late Friday southwest of th...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The death toll from a deadly earthquake in Morocco has risen to 2,497 people, according to the country’s Interior Ministry on Monday. In a statement, the ministry said 2,476 other people were injured in the magnitude-7 earthquake that jolted the North African country late Friday. The United States Geological Survey (USGS)...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 2,500 people were killed and more than 2,400 injured following a powerful earthquake that struck Morocco Friday night, the country’s Interior Ministry said Saturday. The injuries include 1,404 critical cases. Fatalities from the magnitude-7 quake occurred in various regions, including El-Houz, Taroudant, Chic...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – A Moroccan woman has become the only survivor in her family after losing her husband and four children in the earthquake that hit Morocco on Friday. “My husband and four children died in the earthquake,” the grieving mother told the Moroccan Channel 1. “I am left alone with nothing,” she said. […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish institutions and organizations have prepared a relief and rescue team comprising 265 individuals to be dispatched to Morocco to help earthquake victims. According to a statement by the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) Saturday, a team of 265 individuals from AFAD, the Red Crescent, the National ...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – The magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Morocco late Friday, has destroyed buildings and sent horrified residents rushing out of their homes to save their lives. “The earthquake struck as I was watching television,” Aziz Aishi, a resident of the capital Rabat, told the media. “Windows opened and shut themselves,” he recall...
