Journalists from the Sky News news agency visited the Moroccan city of Amizmiz, where an earthquake killed a tenth of the population. People still cannot recover from what happened. The situation is aggravated by the lack of equipment that could clear the rubble.
Before the earthquake, Amizmiz was a colorful town with a population of 20 thousand people, which tourists loved to visit. Now only ruins remain of the city. During the cataclysm, according to preliminary estimates, two thousand people died here. Many of them still remain under rubble.
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Most local residents spend the night on the streets or in temporary camps set up for them on the outskirts. Even to those houses that have survived, people do not want to return, fearing collapse.
A man named Doug gave journalists a short tour and showed him a pile of stones that used to be his home. There, under the rubble, he says, lies his son-in-law.
“I can see parts of his body, but due to the lack of technology it is impossible to extract him,” says Doug.
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Walking through the streets of the city, a man notes almost without emotion:
“The woman there is dead. That’s my friend’s mother. His wife is there too, and she’s dead too.”
Doug says that most people still cannot accept and understand what happened. Several days later they are still in shock.
“One day I will come to terms with this, but not today,” he said.
A news agency journalist explains that now the city has no electricity, no water, no communications. After inspecting the houses, he notes that the rubble crumbles in his hands, which suggests that these buildings were not designed to withstand an earthquake.
“The people inside didn’t have a chance,” he concluded.
Let us remind you that on September 9, an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred in Morocco. This earthquake was the strongest in the country in the last 120 years. According to the latest data, the number of victims has exceeded 2,600 people.
On the third day after the devastating earthquake, the Moroccan authorities agreed to accept help from four countries – Spain, Great Britain, Qatar and the UAE.