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A man hugs a member of the civil protection team as they prepare to recover bodies of victims from a collapsed building, Imi Ntala, Amizmiz, south of Marrakesh, Morocco, 13 September 2023. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck central Morocco late 08 September has killed more than 2,900 people and injured thousands, damaging buildings from villages and towns in the Atlas Mountains to Marrakech, according to a report released by the country's Interior Ministry. The earthquake has affected more than 300,000 people in Marrakech and its outskirts, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. Morocco's King Mohammed VI on 09 September declared a three-day national mourning for the victims of the earthquake. (Photo by Jalal Morchidi/EPA)
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