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Where Search And Rescue crews are working to reach people in the areas worst affected by friday nights powerful earthquake, which is now known to have killed more than 2,000 people. Three days of National Mourning have been declared. This is the small town of asni, in the atlas mountains, where few buildings have been left undamaged by the 6. 8 magnitude quake. Rescue teams have reached asni, after the Moroccan Army cleared a landslide on the access road. But other small Rural Communities remain cut off by rockfalls and there are reports of entire villages flattened. 0ur correspondent nick bea...

Destruction and rescue efforts underway . It is a frenzied effort. Theyre trying to, just as they did when i was back, here where im still in turkey, back in february. They are trying to uncover what could be thousands of people buried underneath that rubble. Thousands of survivors. Thats why its such a desperate effort. One of the differences here is that some of the architecture in morocco, and especially in the rural areas, in the atlas mountains, and in the high atlas mountains, its really rudimentary. Its basically made of adobe blocks or an reinforced concrete, as you can imagine. A. Jus...

Which means while they are finding more bodies, they could also find more survivors. Thats right. When i was here in turkey back in february, there was a devastating twin earthquake here that killed Tens Of Thousands of people. And we thought, wow, we hope the novels dont go up to that level. There are people being dragged out of wreckage, five, six days afterwards. Thats something were hoping we can see in morocco, outside of marrakech. As you mentioned, this was a 6. 8 earthquake on the richter scale. As you said, this is the strongest they fell in 123 years. So what were seeing now, a coord...

Everyone was scared. And i was shocked and didnt understand what was happening. I thought it was only my house that was moving because its fragile and old. I heard people screaming. Everyone went out of their houses. The street is full of people and women screaming thats what happened. Even now, people cant go back home home because theyre still afraid. Look at this video two, men, you see them run because they feel the shaking. Moments later, you see the panic, more people running and then this, Rubble Falling when a hand had been moments before. Wow, wow. Nearly 700 people were reportedly in...

Down parts of Historic Buildings and homes sending residents into the streets. The house rocked aggressively. Everyone was scared. I was shocked and did not understand what was happening. I thought it was only my house that was moving because its fragile and old. Everyone went out of their houses. The street is full of people and women screaming thats what happened. Even now people cannot go back home because they are still afraid. We want to show you video of two men running when the shaking and moments later you see more people and panic. S s and get away. You will see the rubble from the to...