“We felt a huge shake like it was doomsday,” Moulay Brahim resident Ayoub Toudite said.
“Ten seconds and everything was gone.”Flags were lowered across Morocco, as King Mohammed VI ordered three days of national mourning starting Sunday.
People in Moulay Brahim, a poor rural community of less than 3,000 people, live in homes made of clay brick and cinder block.
I was saved by my neighbors who cleared the rubble with their bare hands," said Fatna Bechar in Moulay Brahim.
“This is the first time I experienced an earthquake," British tourist Grahame Stuart said in Moulay Brahim.
Persons:
“, Ayoub Toudite, King Mohammed VI, —, Al Haouz, Fatna, ” Hamid Idsalah, Grahame Stuart, Mohamed Messi, Al Hoceima, Angela Charlton, Ahmed Hatem, Brian Melley
Organizations:
—, ”, Aid, Moroccan, UNESCO, Police, Geological Survey, Portuguese Institute for, Civil Defense, Associated Press
Locations:
MARRAKECH, Morocco, — Morocco, Marrakech, Mountain, Ighil, Al Haouz Province, Al, Moulay Brahim, Turkey, Moulay, ”, U.S, Moroccan, Agadir, Portugal, Algeria, Paris, Cairo, London