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Al Jazeera
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Simon Speakman Cordall

Earthquake survivors search for loved ones in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains

A rescuer digs through the rubble to search for Shamia, a young girl missing since the September 8 earthquake [Simon Speakman Cordall/Al Jazeera]

Tnirte, Morocco – Abdel Abed is watching the other villagers digging. When one of them gets tired, he scrambles down and takes over.

It has been five days since the magnitude 6.8 earthquake ripped through the mountainous regions around Marrakesh, Morocco, and Abed’s daughter, nine-year-old Shaima, is still buried under the rocks.

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