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Stefanie Dekker

Hamza, the Moroccan hotelier who helped a British woman find her dad’s body

Hamza Boumazough [Screenshot/Al Jazeera]

Tizi N’test, Morocco – Deep in the remote Atlas Mountains, hotel owner Hamza Boumazough was an unexpected hero for a British woman trying to find her father, a cyclist who died in the powerful earthquake that struck Morocco.

Boumazough, who owns the mountaintop Hotel La Belle Vue in remote Tizi N’test, was able to find David Barden’s body amid the wreckage of the temblor.

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