Rescuers on Monday searched villages reduced to rubble for any survivors of Morocco's deadliest earthquake in more than six decades, in a desperate race against time as the death toll rose to almost2,500 and the scale of destruction became clearer.
Morocco suffers most lethal quake since 1960.
Many survivors spent a third night outside, their homes destroyed or rendered unsafe. The state news agency reported the death toll was now 2,497 with 2,476 people injured. Footage from the remote village of Imi N’Tala, filmed by Spanish rescuer Antonio Nogales of the aid group Bomberos Unidos Sin Fronteras , showed men and dogs clambering over steep slopes covered in rubble.
On a way to the town of Adassil, not far from the epicentre, rescue worker Ayman Koa it was trying to clear rockfalls that were blocking traffic. “There are worse roads further up that are still blocked and we’re trying to open them too,” he said, as vans loaded with aid squeezed along a narrow cleared track.
The quake also did major damage to the historically significant 12th-century Tinmel Mosque in a remote mountain area closer to the epicentre. The European Union said it was releasing an initial 1million euros to non-governmental aid organisations in Morocco.
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