2023-09-10 07:23:58
At least 2,012 people have died and another 2,059 have been injured, of which 1,404 are in critical condition, due to the earthquake of magnitude 7 on the Richter scale that the country suffered this Saturday.
1,220 victims are seriously injured, although all of them are being transferred to various hospitals in the area, according to the latest balance, which specifies that the majority of deaths are concentrated in the province of Al Haouz, – south of Marrakech and close to the epicenter – with 542 deaths, while the second most affected is Taroudant, with 321 deaths.
Behind them are Chichaua, with 103 deaths; Ouarzazate, with 38; Marrakech, with 13; Azilal, with 11; Agadir, with 5, and Casablanca, where there are currently three deaths, to which is added a death registered in Yusufiya.
The General Staff of the Moroccan Armed Forces has declared total mobilization and Emergency and Civil Protection services continue to mobilize resources to care for the injured and affected and try to rescue people trapped under the rubble. The epicenter was recorded in the town of Ighil, where numerous buildings have collapsed and it is feared that the number of victims will multiply in the most remote villages of the Atlas Mountains.
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King Mohamed VI of Morocco, who according to several media outlets was surprised by the earthquake in France, decreed this Saturday three days of mourning in the country and ordered the deployment of an emergency program to care for the victims and rehabilitate the damaged buildings. Meanwhile, the foreign aid offers They multiply with gestures such as that of Algeria, which opened its closed airspace two years earlier – for humanitarian flights and transportation of the wounded to and from Morocco.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Water has begun work on locating the roads cut off by the damage caused by the earthquake for later repair. According to the Government, they have mobilized their entire staff and material means to reopen the affected points to traffic. In addition, the population has already been asked to go to the blood donation centers in order to care for the wounded.
The National Institute of Geophysics of Morocco (ING) has reported that The earthquake was detected at 11:11 p.m. (0.11 hours in mainland Spain) with a magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter scale. The phenomenon was recorded at a depth of 10.7 kilometers.
Its about most serious earthquake recorded in Morocco by number of victims since the one that affected the Al Hoceima region on February 24, 2004. Then 629 people died, 926 were injured and 12,539 were left homeless.
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