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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Peter Beaumont in Tafeghaghte

Morocco quake survivors call for more help after entire villages destroyed

A woman tries to recover some of her possessions from her home in the village of Tafeghaghte.
A woman tries to recover some of her possessions from her home in the village of Tafeghaghte. Photograph: Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP

As the dirt roads leading to some of the areas worst hit in Friday’s earthquake in Morocco were gradually cleared, the full extent of the disaster was being revealed, including whole villages destroyed in Al Haouz province.

In the tiny hamlet of Tarouiste, in the Atlas mountain foothills above the town of Amizmiz, not one of a dozen houses was left standing. Only the village mosque had not been reduced to rubble.

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