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		</div><p>A powerful earthquake that struck Morocco late on Friday night killed at least 600 people, the country’s Interior Ministry said.</p>
<p>Additionally, 153 injured people were sent to hospitals for treatment. The ministry wrote that most damage occurred outside of cities and towns.</p>
<p>Moroccans posted videos showing buildings reduced to rubble and dust and parts of the famous red walls that surround the old city in historic Marrakech, a Unesco World Heritage site, damaged.</p>
<p>Tourists and others posted videos of people screaming and evacuating restaurants in the city as throbbing club music played.</p>
<p>The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 when it hit at 11.11pm local time, with shaking that lasted several seconds.</p>
<p>Morocco’s National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network measured it at 7 on the Richter scale.</p>
<p>The tremor’s epicentre struck near the town of Ighil, roughly 70 kilometres south of Marrakech.</p>
<p>As per Moroccan news site 2M, town loader Abderrahim Ait Daoud from Talat N’Yaaqoub, a town close to the quake’s epicentre, revealed that several homes in the surrounding areas had partially or totally collapsed.</p>
<p>He added that authorities are currently working to clear roads in Al Haouz Province to allow passage for ambulances and aid to populations affected; however, he added that the large distances between mountain villages mean it will take time to learn the extent of the damage.</p>
<p>Other local media also reported roads near the quake’s epicentre were jammed with vehicles and blocked with collapsed rocks, slowing rescue efforts.</p>
<p>The USGS said the epicentre was 18 kilometres below the Earth’s surface, while Morocco’s seismic agency put it at 8 kilometres down. In either case, such shallow quakes are more dangerous.</p>
<p>Rather than return to concrete buildings, men, women and children stayed out in the streets worried about aftershocks and other reverberations that could cause their homes to sway.</p>
<p>The US agency reported a magnitude 4.9 aftershock hit 19 minutes later.</p>
<p>Though earthquakes are relatively rare in North Africa, a magnitude 5.8 tremor struck near Agadir and caused thousands of deaths in 1960.</p>
<p>National Institute of Geophysics’ head of the Seismic Monitoring and Warning, Lahcen Mhanni, told 2M TV that the earthquake was “exceptional”.</p>
<p>He said: “Mountainous regions in general do not produce earthquakes of this size.</p>
<p>“It is the strongest earthquake recorded in the region.”</p>
<p>Agencies in both Portugal and Algeria confirmed Friday’s quake was felt in both nations.</p>
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