A year after the deadly earthquake in Morocco, which caused the death of nearly 3,000 people and damaged around 60,000 homes in the High Atlas, reconstruction is slow, and the trauma is still very much present among the survivors.
“I can still hear my grandson’s screams under the rubble.” A year after the powerful earthquake that struck southern Morocco, Kebira Aït Bellaïd is unable to mourn the loss of her daughter and three grandchildren. “This earthquake changed me forever”confided to AFP this 52-year-old woman who still lives in a tent, like the majority of the inhabitants of Tiniskt, perched in the mountains 70 kilometers southwest of Marrakech.
The earthquake killed nearly 3,000 people
This picturesque town, with its earthen buildings built in layers one above the other, was almost wiped out by the earthquake of September 8, 2023, which left nearly 3,000 dead and damaged around 60,000 homes in the High Atlas.
The trauma caused by the natural disaster, which claimed the lives of 45 people in Tiniskt, remains acute in this remote and difficult-to-access village of 500 inhabitants.
Kebira Aït Bellaïd tries to move forward for her husband and children “still alive”. But hear “Rayan, 9 years old, who implores me under the rubble still haunts me”, This woman, who has since been followed by a psychiatrist, tells us with emotion.
Her neighbor Khadija Id Yassine hopes, her eyes filled with mist, “never again think about that nightmarish night although it remains anchored in (his) memory”. “Life is hard in the tent between the freezing cold of winter and the stifling heat of summer”continues this mother of three children who has not yet been able to rebuild her house due to non-conformity of her land.
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If the majority of families in Tiniskt received a first tranche of public aid (20,000 dirhams, or 1,845 […]
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