The official death toll from the earthquake that hit Morocco on Friday night has reached 2012, the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior announced.
Along with this count, the number of injured during the earthquake also rose to 2,059, of which 1,404 were in a condition considered serious.
The earthquake, whose epicenter was recorded in the town of Ighil, 63 kilometers southwest of the city of Marrakech, was felt in Portugal and Spain and reached a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, according to the National Institute of Geophysics of Marrakesh. .
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) recorded the magnitude of the earthquake at 6.8.
Source: TSF
