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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Sam Metz and Mosa'ab El Shamy

AP PHOTOS: Moroccan earthquake shattered thousands of lives

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

With their arms around each other, three boys walked through the streets of their town at the foot of Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.

It could have been a scene like millions around the world that day. But in the Moroccan town of Amizmiz, the boys were walking through rubble, one week after an earthquake rattled their community’s homes, schools, mosques and cafes. Their possessions were buried beneath tons of mud and clay bricks, along with an untold number of people whom the boys knew.

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