The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on Tuesday asked for donations worth 105 million euros to support relief operations in Morocco after the earthquake.
“We need 100 million Swiss francs (105 million euros) to respond to the most urgent needs” such as health care, water and sanitation and hygiene,” said IFRC operations director Caroline Holt at a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.
The earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8 caused more than 2,800 deaths and more than 2,500 injuries and caused extensive damage in the Marrakech region.
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 Marrakech. – the United States Geological Survey recorded a magnitude of 6.8.
This earthquake is the deadliest in Morocco since the earthquake that devastated Agadir, on the country’s west coast, on February 29, 1960, killing between 12,000 and 15,000, a third of the city’s population.
Source: DN
