People in Morocco slept in the streets of Marrakech for a third straight night as soldiers and international aid teams in trucks and helicopters began to fan into remote mountain towns hit hardest by a historic earthquake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The disaster killed more than 2,100 people \u2014 a number that is expected to rise \u2014 and the United Nations estimated that 300,000 people were affected by Friday night\u2019s magnitude 6.8 quake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amid offers from several countries, including the United States and France, Moroccan officials said Sunday that they are accepting international aid from just four countries: Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Moroccan authorities have carefully assessed the needs on the ground, bearing in mind that a lack of coordination in such cases would be counterproductive,\u201d the Interior Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While some foreign search-and-rescue teams arrived on Sunday as an aftershock rattled Moroccans already in mourning and shock, other aid teams poised to deploy grew frustrated waiting for the government to officially request assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe know there is a great urgency to save people and dig under the remains of buildings,\u201d said Arnaud Fraisse, founder of Rescuers Without Borders, who had a team stuck in Paris waiting for the green light. \u201cThere are people dying under the rubble, and we cannot do anything to save them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Help was slow to arrive in Amizmiz, where a whole chunk of the town of orange and red sandstone brick homes carved into a mountainside appeared to be missing. A mosque\u2019s minaret had collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a catastrophe,\u2019\u2019 said villager Salah Ancheu, 28. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what the future is. The aid remains insufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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