![]() By midday, people were outside mourning neighbors, surveying the damage on their camera phones and telling one another “May God save us.” Remote villages like those in the drought-stricken Ouargane Valley were largely cut off from the world when they lost electricity and cellphone service. The devastation gripped each town along the High Atlas’ steep and winding switchbacks in similar ways: homes folding in on themselves and mothers and fathers crying as boys and helmet-clad police carried the dead through the streets. The quake brought down walls made from stone and masonry, covering whole communities with rubble. ![]() One man said dishes and wall hangings began raining down, and people were knocked off their feet. ![]() The magnitude-6.8 quake, the biggest to hit the North African country in 120 years, sent people fleeing their homes in terror and disbelief late Friday. ![]()
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