AMIZMIZ, Morocco :A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 1,000 people and injured hundreds more, the country's deadliest in more than six decades, toppling houses in remote mountain villages where rescuers dug through rubble for survivors. The quake struck in Morocco's High Atlas mountains
AMIZMIZ, Morocco :A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 1,000 people and injured hundreds more, the country's deadliest in more than six decades, toppling houses in remote mountain villages where rescuers dug through rubble for survivors.
In the village of Amizmiz near the epicentre rescue workers picked through rubble with their bare hands. The quake, which hit at around 11 p.m. , affected a sweep of the High Atlas mountain range. Tremors were felt as far away as Huelva and Jaen in Andalusia in southern Spain, Spanish television RTVE reported.
In the heart of its old city, a UNESCO World Heritage site, a mosque minaret had fallen in Jemaa al-Fna Square.State television footage from the Moulay Ibrahim area some 40 km south of Marrakech showed dozens of houses collapsed at the foothills of a mountain, and residents digging graves as groups of women stood in the street.
Turkey, where powerful earthquakes in February killed more than 50,000 people, said it was ready to provide support.
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