Earthquake in Morocco, Italian family still stranded on the Atlas

It’s still stuck on the Tizi n’ Test mountain pass, on the Atlasthe family of Italian tourists on holiday in Morocco who yesterday, while she was in a hotel, was left isolated due to the earthquake that hit Morocco

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“The bulldozers are working intensely but 8 kilometers from here the landslide is large. They are doing everything they can, but the work is long. They say they’ll make it this evening. Let’s see,” the tourists report

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The tourist, in continuous contact with the Italian embassy, ​​confirms today that stuck together with her, in addition to her husband and her fifteen-year-old son, there are two Belgian touristsas well as the manager of the hotel-restaurant ‘La Belle Vue’, which was damaged by the earthquake

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“This morning I felt a slight shock – he reports – Not this night.” The family also spent the night in the car. They use the car battery to recharge their cell phones, and they have water available. There is also some food

“We’re fine – he says again – Some people, I think Berbers, arrive here on foot to bring help to those affected by the earthquake on the other side of the pass. They left us some food. A beautiful thing”

The Italians had been on holiday in Morocco since the end of August, a tour of the North African country which took them on Tizi n’ Test, a mountain pass at 2,100 metres crossed by the road that connects Marrakech, 140 kilometers further north, to the town of Taroudannt

The earthquake reduced to a the Tinmel mosque also piled up rubbleone of the masterpieces of Moroccan sacred art of the twelfth century, testimony to Almohad splendor, in the heart of the Atlas Mountains

Restored several times, it has attracted the interest of UNESCO, but has never been included in the list of world heritage sites. Located 100 km from Marrakechthe mosque of “Tinmel”, a name which in Berber means School, was built in 1147

It was, at the beginning, the capital of the “Almohad” dynasty and the stronghold of its spiritual leader Mehdi Ben Toumerte

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The highest number of deaths caused by the earthquake was reported in Al-Haouz province, the epicenter area. In the province, the BBC reports, almost 1,300 victims have been reported. In the second most affected province, that of Taroudant, there were 450 deaths

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