Earthquake in Morocco: solidarity in the midst of an apocalyptic landscape

2023-09-12 14:25:54

He landscape is apocalyptic. Despair grows among the cries for help faced by the Moroccan rescue teams and international organizations to find survivors and assist them, after the earthquake that occurred last Friday that devastated villages in the southwest of Marrakech. The tremor, of magnitude 7 caused for now, more than 2,500 dead and several thousand injured.

in the small Ciudad Moulay Brahim, the destruction is widespread. The International Red Cross warns that humanitarian aid could be long. However, given the magnitude of the destruction solidarity sprang up.

In Marrakech, residents donated blood. Among them the entire Moroccan soccer team. Your captain Romain Saiss, He said: “We must set an example and do what is necessary to help our country, which is suffering.”

In addition to the human and material losses, the earthquake affected part of the rich architectural heritage of Marrakechthe main tourist destination in Morocco.

It is the deadliest earthquake to hit Morocco since February 1960, when almost 15,000 people died in Agadira third of the population of this city on the west coast.

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