April 29, 2024
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Morocco earthquake: foreign rescuers head for quake zone in race to find survivors

Spain sends dozens of rescue workers and aid flight leaves Qatar as search continues for survivors of Friday’s devastating quake

Foreign aid and rescue teams were joining the effort to find survivors amid the rubble of destroyed villages in Morocco’s Atlas mountains on Monday, three days after the country’s strongest-ever earthquake.

Friday’s 6.8-magnitude quake, Morocco’s deadliest in more than six decades, had an epicentre below a remote cluster of mountainous villages 45 miles south of Marrakech, and shook infrastructure as far away as the country’s northern coast.

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