![]() ![]() Residents sought safety in a square in Marrakesh after the powerful earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday night. ![]() ![]() We've been on the calls to all friends and family all night, and also this morning as well, trying to check on everybody." They are investigating the best ways to assist from afar, and hope to talk with representatives at the Moroccan embassy in Australia tomorrow.īouladam said it had been difficult getting information and contacting people who were outside the main cities in Morocco, and the community here had been frantically trying to phone their friends and family back home. The country has declared three days of mourning, as rescuers and neighbours continue to work in rubble from collapsed buildings, trying to find survivors.Īuckland chef Khalid Bouladam told RNZ the local expat community was keen to help in any way possible. More than 2000 people were killed, and more than 2000 were injured in the quake - with very high numbers of critically injured people and the expectation the death toll to climb - the BBC reported Morocco's Interior Ministry has said.Ībout 380,000 people live within 50km of the epicentre of the earthquake, which was centred in a mountainous and hard to access area in the High Atlas Mountains on Friday night, the UN said. Morocco was struck by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake centred about 70km south of the city of Marrakesh, just after 10pm local time on Friday night. Moroccans living in New Zealand have been frantically checking friends and family back home are okay, and are looking for ways to help their country in the wake of the deadly earthquake. A man carries a boy as he walks past destroyed houses after the earthquake, in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, southwest of Marrakesh, on Saturday. ![]()
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