Bulldozers, rescue crews and Moroccan first responders work around the clock trying to dig through the wreckage to unearth the eight to ten corpses still underneath.
"The mountain was split in half and started falling. Houses were fully destroyed," Ait Ougadir Al Houcine said as rescuers worked on recovering bodies, including his sister's. "Some people lost all their cattle. We have nothing but the clothes we're wearing. Everything is gone.
Camera crews from France, Spain and Qatar's Al Jazeera set up as Moroccan emergency responders -- along with crews from Qatar, Spain and international NGOs -- jackhammer through rocks to recover a woman's body from under a crumbling house that looks like it could fall at any moment.
Morocco has limited the amount of aid allowed into the country in response to the earthquake and green-lit crews from only four countries -- Spain, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar -- and non-governmental organizations. Villadry's five-person, four-dog crew from Nice was among the few French NGOs to have made it to the disaster site. It arrived Saturday, he said.
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