This Thursday, Morocco activated a direct aid plan for people affected by the earthquake that shook the country last week, with payments of up to 140,000 dirhams (12,800 euros) to fully or partially rehabilitate 50,000 damaged homes.
In a statement released by the state agency MAP, the Royal Palace reports that this plan, open to contributions from “brother or friendly countries”, was activated during a working meeting chaired today by King Mohamed VI, in which it was presented by an inter-ministerial commission commission to the first version of the resettlement program for those affected.
This plan refers to some 50,000 completely or partially collapsed houses in the five provinces affected by the earthquake, which mainly affected numerous cities and towns in the Moroccan High Atlas.
The payments will be worth between 80,000 and 140,000 dirhams (7,300 and 12,800 euros).
The earthquake that occurred on Friday with its epicenter near Marrakech, and which according to Moroccan authorities had a magnitude of 7.0 on the Richter scale, caused 2,946 deaths and 5,674 injuries, according to the latest report from the Rabat Government.
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.
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.
Source: TSF
