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  • 9/10/2023
The most powerful earthquake to strike Morocco in decades has killed more than 1,000 people and injured hundreds more. Many were killed in remote Atlas mountain villages, and the historic old city of Marrakech was damaged. - REUTERS
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00:00 Rescue workers combed rubble for survivors on Saturday in the village of Amizmiz, south
00:07 of Marrakech. Morocco's most powerful earthquake in six decades killed more than 1,000 people
00:15 and injured hundreds more. It toppled houses in remote mountain villages, where most of
00:21 the deaths occurred.
00:23 The magnitude 6.8 quake struck in the high Atlas Mountains late on Friday night. This
00:28 video captured the moment it struck in Marrakech, the closest city to the epicentre. Houses
00:36 collapsed and buildings were damaged in its densely built old city, a UNESCO World Heritage
00:41 site.
00:44 The minaret fell from this mosque in the historic Jamal al-Fanar Square and the medieval city
00:50 wall cracked. Marrakech resident Miloud Skirout says he was unable to get his sick parents
00:56 out of their house because of the destruction.
01:01 Tree, an Australian, was in Marrakech on a tour.
01:04 The room started shaking, there's no other way. We were going backwards and forwards
01:07 and everything started moving and pictures started moving and so we just grabbed some
01:14 clothes.
01:16 Residents spent the night in the open in many cities, afraid to go indoors. In Marrakech,
01:21 many people camped out on pool deck chairs. It was Morocco's deadliest earthquake since
01:27 1960, when a tremor was estimated to have killed at least 12,000 people, according to
01:33 the US Geological Survey. Governments around the world offered support, including Turkey,
01:39 where powerful earthquakes in February killed more than 50,000 people.

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