Article 6ENDS Morocco quake survivors call for more help after entire villages destroyed

Morocco quake survivors call for more help after entire villages destroyed

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Peter Beaumont in Tafeghaghte
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As scale of disaster become clearer, survivors in small mountain communities feel they have been abandoned

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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