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The west of Libya Morocco is continuing to deal with the aftermath of Friday’s powerful earthquake. Stories are emerging from some of the more remote villages. Many survivors have had to rescue loved ones or retrieve bodies from the rubble without any assistance. Around 3-thousand people are now confirmed dead.

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00:00 In this small village, Tikhat, every single house has been destroyed and every family
00:10 has lost someone in the quake.
00:14 I have never imagined like this will happen to my village.
00:18 Everything is gone.
00:19 There is no house anymore.
00:29 Some of us lost the parents and some lost their wives.
00:36 And I have never thought that one day I will lose my mom and my sister.
00:43 My sister, she wasn't just my sister.
00:45 She was my everything.
00:46 She was my, she was close to me.
00:49 I can't believe right now, I'm shocked.
00:52 I can't believe that I lost everything.
00:54 How can I get started again?
00:58 More than a quarter of the people who lived here have perished, buried together in mass
01:04 graves.
01:05 My mom and my sister are dead, so I'm here with my grandfather.
01:15 Despite this village being completely demolished, there is no humanitarian aid here.
01:21 There's no running water, no food, no electricity, no sanitation.
01:26 And there are children here who have lost both their parents.
01:29 They're now orphans.
01:31 No one has come here to help them figure out their future.
01:38 This woman was pulled from the debris and three members of her family died.
01:44 She pleads for help.
01:47 We want the authorities and the king to help us.
01:50 We need a house first to live in.
01:52 If tomorrow the rain comes, where will we hide?
01:55 Nowhere.
01:56 Or where will we hide for the winter?
01:58 It's all gone.
02:01 Numerous villages are facing the same perilous situation.
02:06 Even thinking about the future seems an impossible task.
02:11 We're still alive but we're dead.
02:13 As you can see, everyone here, we can't live anymore.
02:17 Even if we want to live, we can't.
02:21 When everything is gone, where do they begin?
02:25 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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