Residents swept all the rubble off the main unpaved road leading to town and aid crews began arriving but pleaded for more help. 'It's a catastrophe,'' said villager Salah Ancheu, 28. Help was slow to arrive in Amizmiz, where a whole chunk of the town of orange and red sandstone brick homes carved into a mountainside appeared to be missing.

'There are people dying under the rubble, and we cannot do anything to save them.' 'We know there is a great urgency to save people and dig under the remains of buildings,' said Arnaud Fraisse, founder of Rescuers Without Borders, who had a team stuck in Paris waiting for the green light. International aid crews were prepared to deploy, but waited for the Morocco government to request their assistance. The United Nations estimated that 300,000 people were affected by Friday night's magnitude 6.8 quake and some Moroccans complained on social networks that the government wasn't allowing more help from outside. The disaster killed more than 2,000 people - a number that is expected to rise. Rescuers continued to search for survivors Sunday after a powerful earthquake struck Morocco Friday night, killing at least 2,000 people.ĪMIZMIZ, Morocco - An aftershock rattled Moroccans on Sunday as they prayed for victims of the nation's strongest earthquake in more than a century and toiled to rescue survivors while soldiers and workers brought water and supplies to desperate mountain villages in ruins.

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