More than 2,800 people have died from the earthquake in Morocco.
Search teams from Spain, Britain, and Qatar have joined Moroccan efforts after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck the High Atlas Mountains.
Over 2,500 people were injured from the earthquake and 2,862 people have died.
A 66-year-old resident described residents pulling 25 people from the rubble in the village of Tagadirte.
“We were busy rescuing, because we didn’t have tools, we used our hands,” he said, adding that his sister was one of the individuals found alive in the rubble.
“I am sure that in the coming days there will be some rescues, we think that there may still be people in the collapsed structures, that there may have been pockets of air, and as I say, we never give up hope,” said Spanish rescuer Antonio Nogales from the group Bomberos Unidos Sin Fronteras (United Firefighters Without Borders).
The total number of individuals missing remains unknown.
Reporting from Reuters:
The army said it was reinforcing search-and-rescue teams, providing drinking water and distributing food, tents and blankets. A major road connecting the High Atlas Mountains to Marrakech was gridlocked on Monday evening as heavy vehicles and volunteers carrying relief supplies headed towards some of the hardest hit communities in remote areas of the mountains. Moroccan volunteers and civilians, aided by some foreigners, helped direct traffic and clear the road of rock debris.
