MORROCCO EARTHQUAKE: BBC TEAM REPORTS LIVE ONGOING RESCUE MISSION

Watch: BBC reporter in quake-hit village

The BBC's Nick Beake has reached the remote mountain village of Amizmiz, where at least 150 people are estimated to have died in Friday's earthquake.

You can watch his report on the devastation here:BBC NEWS

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A collapsed building on the road between Amizmiz and Ouirgane, in the High Atlas mountain rangeImage caption: A collapsed building on the road between Amizmiz and Ouirgane, in the High Atlas mountain range

'Everything came down on them'

As we mentioned slightly earlier, we're now hearing that troops have cleared one of the main roads to Asni, a small town in the High Atlas mountains that was one of the worst hit.

Rockfalls on the narrow, winding roads had made it hard for relief workers to reach affected villages.

One local told the BBC the blockages were making it hard to locate people.

Quote Message: “There are a lot of blocked roads, a lot of people can't find their parents and a lot of people are still under the rubble. People are still searching for their relatives. Everything came down on them, the mountains, their homes. from Adeeni Mustafa Asni resident

“There are a lot of blocked roads, a             lot of people can't find their parents and a lot of people are still under the rubble. People are still searching for their relatives. Everything came down on them, the mountains, their homes.

 Adeeni Mustafa, Asni resident

Another local, a British journalist who lives near Asni, said there were rocks all over the road.

Quote Message: I'm standing beside a boulder that is three times as high and three times as long as me, that's just right in the middle of the main road. from Alice Morrison Journalist

   I'm standing beside a boulder that             is three times as high and three times as long as me, that's just right in the middle of the main road.

Alice MorrisonJournalist

She also described how many of the older, hand-built houses had just fallen apart.

"These houses, they're all built from compressed clay which you take two straw pallets, put a wall in-between, tamp it down with shovels, put water on it, let it harden and put another row up.

"They have collapsed, killing people."

My family has nothing left'

Hajar Chaffag

BBC Africa

A woman in Morocco's Agadir city, along the southern Atlantic coast, has told the BBC that she lost four relatives in the earthquake that hit their village in the High Atlas Mountains.

Hakima said neighbours pulled them out of the rubble of their homes in Msouna village.

"My family has lost their homes, their belongings - they have nothing left," Hakima said.

She described the situation as "catastrophic", and said no aid had yet reached Msouna and nearby villages.

Quote Message: People are starving. Children just want water. They need help. from Hakima Agadir city

People are starving. Children just want water. They need help.

HakimaAgadir city

 

Read more live reports on the incident here:BBC NEWS

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