By Ahmed Eljechtimi KETTOU, Morocco (Reuters) - A wedding celebration saved all the people of a Moroccan village during Friday's deadly earthquake, ...
SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for September 12, 2023 | SaltWireKETTOU, Morocco - A wedding celebration saved all the people of a Moroccan village during Friday's deadly earthquake, which destroyed their stone and mud-brick houses while they were enjoying traditional music in an outdoor courtyard.
Standing beside his wife on Tuesday, and still wearing their wedding clothes nearly four days after the quake buried their possessions in rubble, Boudad said the tremor had overwhelmed him with fear for her as he waited in his own village. Her impoverished village of Ighil Ntalghoumt was left in ruins, and many of its people are now homeless, but unlike in other parts of the Adassil region, close to the tremor's epicentre, there were no deaths or serious injuries, residents said.
The party was a traditional pre-wedding celebration thrown by the family of the bride before she was to depart the next day for the house of the groom, Boudad, waiting in Kettou. As in Ighil Ntalghoumt, a communal event had saved many lives, with villagers commemorating a funeral in a house that stayed upright. Boudad had bought 150 chickens and 30kg of fruit to celebrate the wedding that afternoon but much of it has now rotted.Many people from villages around Ighil Ntalghoumt had also come to enjoy the Ajdir family's celebration and a shared meal of beef tagine stew, meaning they too escaped being trapped in their homes by falling rubble.
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