Headline Roundup • September 11th, 2023
Over 2,000 Killed in Morocco's Biggest Earthquake in 60 Years
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Nearly 2,500 people are confirmed dead and thousands injured after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Morocco on Friday.
The Details: The quake's epicenter was in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, southwest of the city of Marrakech. Officials say areas with older buildings experienced the most destruction. Video shows some villages reduced to rubble, and several aftershocks added to the damage. King Mohammed VI ordered three days of national mourning, and directed food and water to be sent to those who lost homes.
How the Media Covered it: Left- and center-rated sources covered the earthquake much more prominently than right-rated sources did. Many focused on recovery efforts and harrowing stories from survivors.
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The large rotary blades of a military helicopter fire up, lifting emergency supplies towards villages otherwise cut off from the world.
They’re also shuttling the injured and dead away from the epicenter.
An enormous cloud of dust engulfs dozens of survivors and emergency teams who have descended on the town of Talat Nyakoub, at the epicenter of the earthquake to dig for the living and recover the dead.
There is hope that loved ones didn’t die when the quake hit the Atlas Mountains here in Morocco, but the smell of dead bodies is at times...
Tayeb ait Ighenbaz was forced to choose whether to save his 11-year-old son or his parents when they became trapped under rubble after Morocco's earthquake struck.
The goat herder from a tiny community in the Atlas Mountains says he is haunted by the decision he had to make.
Tayeb was with his wife, two children and parents on Friday night in their small stone home when it was rocked by the country's biggest earthquake in 60 years.
He leads me to his former home, which now lies in ruins.
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Moroccan authorities declared three days of official mourning Saturday when a rare, powerful earthquake ripped through the Atlas Mountains and the historic city of Marrakech, leaving more 2,000 dead, some 2,100 injured and first responders struggling to reach survivors.
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI also ordered the country’s armed forces to mobilize air and land rescue teams and construct a field hospital after the 6.8 magnitude quake, according to a statement from the country’s military.
So far, 2,012 people have died, mostly in Marrakech and five provinces near the epicenter of the quake,...
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