A video by a guest shows the moment the 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck, with images of celebrations suddenly giving way to chaos, darkness and screaming.
A wedding celebration saved all the people of a Moroccan village during Friday’s devastating earthquake, which destroyed their stone and mud-brick houses while they were enjoying traditional music in an outdoor courtyard.
Standing beside his wife on Tuesday, and still wearing their wedding clothes nearly four days after the quake buried their possessions in rubble, Boudad said the tremor had overwhelmed him with fear for her as he waited in his own village. A wedding celebration saved all the people of a Moroccan village during Friday’s deadly earthquake, which destroyed their stone and mud-brick houses while they were enjoying traditional music in an outdoor courtyard.Her impoverished village of Ighil Ntalghoumt was left in ruins, and many of its people are now homeless, but unlike in other parts of the Adassil region, close to the tremor’s epicentre, there were no deaths or serious injuries, residents said.
Despite the disaster, she travelled to Kettou on Saturday with Boudad’s brother and his wife, who had been at the party, leaving behind her marriage gifts and arriving in the afternoon. As he walked around the village, Ajdir pointed to signs of Friday night’s chaos, with dainty dress shoes abandoned in the rubble.The terrible fate the people of Ighil Ntalghoumt escaped was clearly visible a few kilometres back down the winding mountain road towards Marrakesh where the village of Tikekhte was almost entirely wiped out.Loading
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