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‘It felt like we were being bombed’: Moroccan earthquake survivors left sleeping outside

‘It felt like we were being bombed’: Moroccan earthquake survivors left sleeping outside

Help has yet to arrive in the village of Moulay Brahim in the Atlas mountains where many homes have been reduced to rubble

In a narrow passage in the village of Moulay Brahim, in Morocco’s Atlas mountains, a house had spilled across the lane in a drift of sandy ruins. It was largely unrecognisable from what it once was, save for the unlikely survival of a solitary room left beached atop the rubble, the blue paint of its walls still visible.

Abderahim Imni, with his hand bandaged from where he was injured by falling masonry during Friday’s devastating earthquake, was directing the cleanup in the street where his home once stood.

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