Hope for finding Morocco quake survivors fades

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 13, 2023 12:04 am

RABAT: Medics treated a constant flow of casualties after Morocco's strongest-ever earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, but hopes were dimming on Tuesday of finding more survivors under the rubble.

Rescuers supported by foreign teams faced a race against time to find those still alive after villages in the Atlas Mountains were devastated by the 6.8-magnitude temblor that struck over the weekend.

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