Morocco earthquake: everything known so far

• More than 800 people have been killed in Morocco after a powerful earthquake hit several towns and cities. The search for survivors is ongoing.

• Morocco’s interior ministry said on Saturday morning that at least 820 people had died, and another 672 people were injured.

• A local official said most deaths were in mountainous areas that were hard to reach.

• The earthquake is Morocco’s deadliest since at least 2004, when a tremor in the northern Rif mountains killed more than 600 people.

• More than 300 people have been reported injured in the quake, which local officials say caused the most damage in rural areas.

• The earthquake, which was centred in Ighil, measured at least 6.8 magnitude, though some readings have it higher.

• In Marrakech, some buildings in the old city, a Unesco world heritage site, have been damaged or destroyed.

• Numerous world leaders, including Emmanuel Macron, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Narendra Modi and Olaf Scholz, have sent messages of support.

• The UK foreign secretary, James Cleverly, has said the UK is supporting British nationals after the quake.

• Friday’s quake was felt as far away as Portugal and Algeria, according to the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere and Algeria’s Civil Defence agency, which oversees emergency response.

• In 1960, a magnitude 5.8 tremor struck near the Moroccan city of Agadir and caused thousands of deaths.