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Houses in Morocco's quake-hit Talat N'Yaaqoub razed to the ground
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9/12/2023
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Everything has collapsed in the town of Talat in Yaqub.
00:04
The police station, the local school, the post office,
00:09
not to mention hundreds of homes and businesses.
00:12
The town has all but disappeared.
00:15
It's hard to imagine that 8,000 people once lived here.
00:18
Fatima was born in Talat in Yaqub but now lives in Marrakech.
00:23
After the earthquake struck, she drove for 11 hours to return to her hometown.
00:29
She says it's now unrecognisable.
00:32
This was my dad's shop.
00:36
It was a small shop.
00:38
There it is.
00:40
This is the road she grew up on.
00:44
There, that's our house.
00:49
It was here and my grandmother's was here.
00:56
Fatima has lost 11 family members to the earthquake.
00:59
The latest victim is her 15-year-old cousin.
01:03
His dad and other people tried to get him out.
01:09
They got my grandmother out, his wife out, and his grandson and his granddaughter.
01:17
And when they came back for my little cousin, it was too late.
01:23
Do you feel like your town has completely disappeared?
01:26
It's disappeared.
01:28
It's disappeared, that's sure and certain.
01:31
Do you see anything here?
01:33
There's nothing left. That's it.
01:36
It's disappeared.
01:38
It's disappeared with its people, with everything.
01:41
A few metres away, a team of Moroccan firefighters are busy working through the wreckage.
01:49
Their sniffer dog shows signs it's detected a body.
01:52
The town's school teacher, who is still missing, used to live here.
01:56
Rescue workers aren't holding on to much hope.
02:00
We've pulled out other victims from other homes.
02:06
All of them are dead, yeah.
02:10
It's been days since the quake struck.
02:15
It's too late.
02:17
It's too late.
02:18
Further away from Talet in Yaakoub, there are people in even more remote areas still waiting for help from emergency services.
02:27
With many still buried under the rubble, the country is bracing for the death toll to climb.
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