A rare, powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday night, killing hundreds of people and damaging buildings from villages in the Atlas Mountains to the historic city of Marrakech.
Moroccan television showed scenes from the aftermath, as many stayed outside fearing aftershocks.
Morocco's Interior Ministry said early Saturday that at least 296 people had died, mostly in Marrakech and five provinces near the quake's epicenter. Another 153 people were sent to hospitals with injuries.Anxious families stood in streets or huddled on the pavement, some carrying children, blankets or other belongings.
The head of a town near the earthquake's epicenter told Moroccan news site 2M that several homes in nearby towns had partly or totally collapsed, and electricity and roads were cut off in some places. Messages of support began to roll in from around the world on Saturday. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz posted condolences on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, currently hosting theof the world's largest economies, wrote that "India is ready to offer all possible assistance to Morocco in this difficult time."
The epicenter of Friday's tremor was near the town of Ighil in Al Haouz Province, roughly 70 kilometers south of Marrakech. In 1960, a magnitude 5.8 tremor struck near the Moroccan city of Agadir and caused thousands of deaths.
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