(UPDATE) TIKHT, Morocco: Rescuers on Monday faced a growing race against time to dig any survivor from the rubble of devastated villages in Morocco's Atlas mountains, three days after the North African country's strongest-ever earthquake.

The 6.8-magnitude quake that struck last Friday night southwest of the city of Marrakesh has claimed more than 2,100 lives and injured over 2,400 people, many seriously, updated official figures showed on Sunday night.

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