Caretaker Minister of Agriculture Abbas Hajj Hassan contacted his Moroccan counterpart, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water and Forests, Mohamed al-Siddiqi, offering his deepest condolences for the victims of the “catastrophic earthquake that struck the Moroccan people last Friday night,” stressing that “the Kingdom of Morocco has always stood by the Lebanese people.”
In turn, Al-Siddiqi revealed during the call that he had recorded casualties in the provinces of Al Haouz, Marrakesh, Ouarzazate, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudan. He also indicated that most of the deaths were in mountainous areas that are difficult to reach.
The National Institute of Geophysics in Morocco had reported that an earthquake measuring 7 degres on the Richter scale was recorded in Al Haouz Province, in the center of the country, at 11:00 Friday night, Moroccan time, and the number of victims so far has exceeded 1,000, in addition to thousands of wounded.
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