A tourist and a resident of Marrakesh said they saw bodies, smoke and rubble as they fled to safety from the Morocco earthquake Friday night.
His wife woke him and his 1-year-old daughter shortly after 11 p.m. They had to leave immediately, she told him.
Once Omar agreed to leave, the family entered one of the many narrow alleys that made up the old city of Marrakesh, where they saw what seemed like their entire neighborhood trying to get out.. Everyone was screaming. Pushed up against each other, the neighbors moved toward a nearby square, where they hoped they’d be safe from collapsing buildings. Five or 10 minutes later, Taki’s family reached the Bab Elmaleh square.
Near his house, Taki saw a neighbor in his 30s stumble outside his home, covered in dust. He took three or four steps and collapsed in the spot where he would die. “Immediately I was thinking about Turkey,” he said. “Immediately, I thought about trying to get outside.” Soon, an emergency rescue crew emerged from an alley, carrying someone on a stretcher, wrapped in a blanket. Rosemont couldn’t tell whether they were alive. The rescuers put the person in an ambulance and went back into the alleys.
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