The death toll caused by the earthquake in Morocco rose to 2,901 this Tuesday. There are still 5,530 people injured as a result of the earthquake.
According to Reuters, this was the deadliest and strongest earthquake in Moroccan territory since 1960.
Rescue teams from Spain, Britain and Qatar are helping Moroccan authorities, while Italy, Belgium, France and Germany say offers of assistance have not yet been approved.
Mohammed VI will visit a hospital in Marrakech
The Moroccan head of state, King Mohammed VI, will visit the Marrakech University Hospital this Tuesday.
The information was provided by Moroccan military officers to the French news channel BFMTV.
The hospital in question has received numerous injured people from the areas affected by the earthquake that occurred on Friday night.
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. .
This earthquake is the deadliest in Morocco since the one that destroyed Agadir, on the country’s western coast, on February 29, 1960, causing between 12,000 and 15,000 deaths, a third of the city’s population.
Source: TSF
