RABAT, Mar. 03(MAP)- 628 people
died and 926 others were wounded, while, 15 , 230 were left homeless in
the tremor, measuring 6 degrees on the Richter scale, that rocked February
24 at 2 : 30am the northern region of Al-Hoceima (more than 440 km northeast
of Rabat), said Wednesday night the Regional Committee of Support to the
victims created recently.
Among the injured, 101 are still in
hospital, including 14 transferred to Rabat and 2 others to Nador (East).
According to the same source, 2539 houses collapsed including 2498 in rural areas.
Eight days after the deadly earthquake in the northeastern Moroccan region, populations are learning how to live in collective tents supplied by international and national aid, but the psychosis of aftershocks still endures, especially at night.
While no one died in the area's main city of Al-Hoceima, the resigned inhabitants of the city say they do know how long they will spend in the camps, but what they fear more is that a new powerful tremor would surprise them at night.
At sunrise, when the camps populations start to wake up, adults rush to check whether anything has changed in the damaged landscape. Children are the first to wake up and they soon start their games as their parents clean the tents and talk about strange stories of the quake.
The same solidarity was shown by Moroccans in the country and abroad as well as by several countries, organizations and associations. Thousands of tons of relief supplies were dispatched to the area.