Mud-brick homes in Morocco's High Atlas Mountain villages don't just collapse, they crumble, leaving little hope for survivors 4 days after a powerful earthquake.
— High in the central Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, hope was fading fast Tuesday of finding more survivors four days after aand claimed more than 2,900 lives. The 6.8 magnitude temblor was unusual for the area, and towns and villages built largely of mud-brick dwellings were incredibly vulnerable.
"I heard my sister screaming, 'Brother, brother, save us!' I rescued her and her son and her husband," Mohamed Ouchen told us."We used our bare hands because we didn't have tools." In the High Atlas Mountains, near the epicenter of the earthquake, jagged cliffs, serpentine passage, and rustic dwellings proved to be just as lethal as they were awe-inspiring.
"The government didn't come, we didn't see anyone," resident Mouhamed Aitlkyd told us."After the earthquake, they only came to count the number of victims. Since then, no-one is here with us."
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