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"As the dirt roads leading to some of the areas worst hit in Friday’s
earthquake in Morocco were gradually cleared, the full extent of the disaster
was being revealed, including whole villages destroyed in Al Haouz province.
In the tiny hamlet of Tarouiste, in the Atlas mountain foothills above the town
of Amizmiz, not one of a dozen houses was left standing. Only the village
mosque had not been reduced to rubble.
With the first international search and rescue teams finally deploying to the
worst-affected areas on Monday, after a disaster that has claimed at least
2,800 lives, it was clear that the window to find anyone alive beneath the
rubble was rapidly closing.
As relief efforts stepped up a gear, the
Guardian visited a series of
mountain villages that had been almost entirely destroyed, where residents said
they felt they had been abandoned.
In Tarouiste, people described how they had been left to carry the dead bodies
of six neighbours down the mountain where they were met by private cars, as no
ambulances or other government aid had yet reached them.
“No one has come to help us,” said Hassan al-Mati, whose mother was one of
those who died, with frustration in his voice. “We need trucks to come to help
us move the dead animals buried in the rubble. We need tents and food. We feel
like we have been abandoned."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
