MARRAKECH, Morocco (a1tv uk ) A powerful earthquake in Morocco has killed more than 1037 people and injured hundreds more, destroying buildings and sending residents of major cities rushing from their homes in the country’s deadliest tremor in more than six decades.
The magnitude 7.2 quake struck in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late on Friday night. The Interior Ministry said 1037 people had been killed and another 672 injured, in an updated casualty toll. A local official said most deaths were in mountain areas that were hard to reach.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar on Saturday expressed his heartfelt condolences on loss of precious lives and said he was grieved over the tragic incident. He said Pakistani nation and government was standing by the people and govt of Morocco in this difficult time. Kakar further said Pakistan would extend every possible help to the Islamic country to coop with the situation.
