Search teams from Spain and Britain are joining efforts to find survivors of the 6.8-magnitude quake that struck 72 kilometres south-west of Marrakech.
| Rescuers raced against time on Monday to find survivors in the rubble more than 48 hours afterin more than six decades, with more than 2100 people killed in a disaster that devastated villages in the High Atlas Mountains.
In the village of Tafeghaghte, Hamid ben Henna described how his eight-year-old son died under the rubble after he had gone to fetch a knife from the kitchen as the family were having their evening meal. The rest of the family survived. Morocco has deployed the army as part of its response and has said it is reinforcing search-and-rescue teams, providing drinking water and distributing food, tents and blankets.
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