{"id":7680,"date":"2023-09-12T02:25:47","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T02:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/2023\/09\/12\/moroccan-survivors-now-face-being-crushed-by-falling-boulders-dislodged-by-earthquake-as\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T02:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T02:25:47","slug":"moroccan-survivors-now-face-being-crushed-by-falling-boulders-dislodged-by-earthquake-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latestnews.top\/moroccan-survivors-now-face-being-crushed-by-falling-boulders-dislodged-by-earthquake-as\/","title":{"rendered":"Moroccan survivors now face being crushed by falling boulders dislodged by earthquake as"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Survivors of the most powerful earthquake to hit Morocco in 120 years now face being crushed by boulders dislodged by the tremor, with many forced to sleep outside after entire mountain villages were flattened.<\/p>\n
Experts have warned that deadly after-shocks will continue to ravage the country, with seismologists saying more than 25 have already been felt since Friday’s quake – the deadliest in 60 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The death toll has continued to climb as bodies are being pulled from the rubble three days after the 6.8-magnitude quake hit, with officials saying today that at least 2,500 people lost their lives with thousands more injured and missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A mother and her three sons who made it out alive have told of their incredible escape – revealing how they ran from their home in the worst-affected mountainous region mere seconds before it came crashing down.<\/p>\n
Khadija Elhil Ali, 32, and her children initially had no idea what was happening when the first tremors began late on Friday night in their tiny hillside village of Asflala, 35 miles south of Marrakech in the Atlas mountains.<\/p>\n
‘We soon realised it was an earthquake,’ Khadija told MailOnline, ‘stones were falling in on us from the roof and we knew we must get out. ‘Not long after we did, the whole thing fell down.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Khadija’s husband Hassan, 44, who had been working in Marrakech, arrived home the next morning, overjoyed that his family were safe, but also devastated to see the house which had been in his family for more than a century, reduced to rubble.<\/p>\n
Like all the villagers, the couple and their sons, aged 16, 11 and six, are sleeping in tents outside at night, fearful of more after-shocks. <\/p>\n