At least 1,037 people have lost their lives, and over 1,200 have been injured in a powerful earthquake that devastated Morocco on the night of Friday, September 8, to Saturday, September 9.
A powerful earthquake struck the Kingdom of Morocco on the night from Friday to Saturday. The provisional death toll from the violent earthquake now exceeds a thousand. The number of victims has reached 1,037, as announced by the Ministry of the Interior.
The tremor also caused 1,204 injuries, “including 721 in critical condition,” the ministry stated in a press release. The previous toll reported 820 deaths and 672 injuries.
Algeria decides to open its airspace to humanitarian flights Algeria announced on Saturday that it has decided to open its airspace, which has been closed since September 2021, to flights carrying humanitarian aid and earthquake victims from Morocco. “The high Algerian authorities have (…) decided to open the airspace for flights carrying humanitarian aid and wounded individuals” following the “violent earthquake” that struck the country, the Algerian presidency said in a statement.
On September 22, 2021, Algeria closed its airspace to all Moroccan civil and military aircraft after severing diplomatic relations with Rabat amid a serious diplomatic crisis between the two Maghreb rivals. Algerian authorities also stated that they are “fully prepared to provide humanitarian aid and mobilize all material and human resources in solidarity with the fraternal Moroccan people, in the event of a request from the Kingdom of Morocco,” according to the presidential statement.
In an earlier statement issued by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Algeria offered “its sincere condolences to the brotherly Moroccan people for the victims of the earthquake.”
