Rescue workers, aided by newly arrived foreign crews, are racing against the clock to find survivors amid the rubble of Morocco’s mountain villages, following Friday’s 6.8-magnitude earthquake. More than 2,600 deaths and 2,500 injuries have now been reported, caused by the strongest earthquake to hit Morocco in more than a century. Gathered below are images from Marrakesh and villages in central Morocco, where both burials and rescue operations are ongoing.
The Aftermath of Morocco’s Deadly Earthquake
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![A single damaged tower stands on a hillside, surrounded by the rubble of dozens of smaller buildings, destroyed by an earthquake.]()
Read moreA view of a village destroyed by the earthquake, near Adassil, Morocco, on September 11, 2023. #
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![Rescue workers pull debris from a damaged building.]()
Read moreEmergency crews work in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake, in Amizmiz, Morocco, on September 10, 2023. #
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![A woman reacts, sitting in the rubble of destroyed buildings.]()
Read moreA woman reacts in the rubble of destroyed buildings in the village of Imi N'Tala, in central Morocco, on September 10, 2023. #
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![Two people walk past heavily damaged buildings.]()
Read moreResidents walk past quake-damaged houses in the mountain village of Moulay Brahim on September 10, 2023. #
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![People line up outside a clinic to donate blood.]()
Read morePeople line up to donate blood for injured people in the earthquake in front of a blood center in Marrakesh, Morocco, on September 11, 2023. #
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Read moreA woman sleeps on the ground in a park after being made homeless by the earthquake, on September 9, 2023, in Marrakesh. #
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![Two people stand outside a tent, with mountains rising in the background.]()
Read moreDisplaced women stand next to a tent given to them as emergency shelter by the Moroccan government on September 10, 2023, in Moulay Brahim, Morocco. #
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![A woman gestures as she stands among the rubble of her home that was destroyed by the earthquake.]()
Read moreA woman gestures as she stands among the rubble of her home that was destroyed by the earthquake, on September 10, 2023, in Moulay Brahim. #
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![Many destroyed houses cover a hillside.]()
Read moreDamage and destruction in the village of Tikht, near Adassil, on September 10, 2023, two days after the devastating earthquake. #
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![Emergency workers crawl into a tight space beneath a heavily damaged house.]()
Read moreEmergency workers search beneath a heavily damaged house on September 10, 2023, in Moulay Brahim. #
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![A man stands in an alley, smoking a cigarette, as people behind him work to clear rubble.]()
Read moreA man takes a cigarette break as people clear rubble in the old Medina of Marrakesh on September 10, 2023. #
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![The face of a donkey pokes out from a large pile of rubble; the bucket of a piece of construction equipment is nearby.]()
Read moreCrews work to rescue a donkey trapped under rubble in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte on September 9, 2023. #
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Read morePeople rescue a donkey that had been trapped under rubble in the village of Tafeghaghte on September 9, 2023. #
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![A young man walks through a heavily quake-damaged house.]()
Read moreMouath Aytnasr, 20, who lost his 7-year-old brother Suleiman in the earthquake, walks in the debris of his damaged house, in a hamlet on the outskirts of Talat N'Yaaqoub, on September 11, 2023. #
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Read moreBlankets are distributed to displaced people on September 10, 2023, in Ouirgane, Morocco. #
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![A person walks carefully over broken goods on a shop floor.]()
Read moreA shop owner cleans his damaged store in Marrakesh on September 10, 2023. #
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![A bed is visible through the collapsed wall of a hotel.]()
Read moreA bed is visible through the collapsed wall of a hotel on September 10, 2023, in Moulay Brahim. #
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![A person looks over many quake-destroyed houses.]()
Read moreA man looks at the rubble of homes in the mountain village of Imi N'Tala on September 10, 2023. #
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![Three women cry while holding one another close.]()
Read moreWomen cry near the rubble of collapsed houses in the village of Imi N'Tala on September 10, 2023. #
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![A group of people carries two bodies into a hillside cemetery.]()
Read morePeople carry victims' bodies to a cemetery for burial in Moulay Brahim village on September 10, 2023. #
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Read moreA daughter of one of two victims of the earthquake reacts during their funeral in Moulay Brahim on September 10, 2023. #
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Read moreResidents rest in central Marrakesh on September 9, 2023. #
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![Several people walk over huge piles of debris, following an earthquake.]()
Read morePeople make their way over the rubble of Imoulas village in Taroudant province, one of the most devastated in quake-hit Morocco, on September 11, 2023. #
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![A close view of a woman wearing a bandage on her head. Her face has cuts, bruising, and some swelling.]()
Read moreKhadija Oubleaid, who lost her son and sustained injuries in Friday's earthquake, rests in a tent on September 11, 2023, in Douzrou, Morocco. #
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![An emergency worker and a dog search through a damaged building.]()
Read moreAn emergency worker and a dog search through damaged buildings in Amizmiz, Morocco, on September 10, 2023. #
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