Moroccan rescue crews have been joined by international crews from Spain, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Qatar, who sent emergency responders into the mountains where bodies remain buried under dust and rubble.
The death and injury counts continue to rise as more remote villages are reached, bodies get dug up and people sent to hospitals. Moroccan authorities reported 2,901 deaths as of Tuesday. The United Nations has estimated that 300,000 people were affected by Friday night’s magnitude 6.8 quake.About 38 miles north in Marrakech, King Mohammed VIa hospital and donating blood. And in Imi N’Tala — as well as in nearby Anougal, Imi N’Isli and Igourdane — aid has finally arrived.
She’s likely dead because — unlike the buildings that fell in Turkey and Syria’s earthquake earlier this year — the mud bricks used to build homes in Imi N’Tala left little space for air needed to keep people alive, said Patrick Villadry of the French rescue crew, ULIS. Though the government has cautioned that poorly coordinated aid “would be counterproductive,” the explanation has prompted skepticism among Moroccans like Brahim Ait Blasri, who watched as they tried recovery attempts.
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