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Spain sends humanitarian aid and rescue workers to Morocco
The Spanish government has been just one of four to send aid after the Moroccan earthquake
Following the devastating magnitude-7.7 earthquake that occurred in the south and west of Morocco, neighbour Spain has been one of the first and most active countries to respond to the disaster, flying rescue teams out to Marrakesh to assist in emergency aid efforts.
As of this Monday, the Moroccan government says it has accepted aid from four countries – Britain, Spain, Qatar and the UAE. Spain shares a land border with Morocco in two places, in the Spanish exclaves of Melilla and Ceuta.
The Spanish aid has already begun with the dispatch of the UME Urban Search and Rescue team, which arrived this Sunday September 10 in Marrakesh after taking off from the Zaragoza Air Base in an Air Force A400 aircraft.
Groups of Spanish firefighters with eight sniffer dogs also arrived in Marrakesh on Sunday to collaborate with the Moroccan authorities in their rescue work.
In addition, the thirty members of the Special Emergency and Immediate Response Unit of the Community of Madrid (ERICAM) who have gone to Morocco are ready to help in the rescue work after the earthquake, and have been assigned to work the area around the town of Talat N'Yaaqoub, in the province of Marrakech.
Tras la llegada🛬 a Marrakech-Menara los componentes del equipo @UMEgob se dirigen a la zona asignada en primera instancia, la localidad de Talat N'Yaaqoub pic.twitter.com/PhNgVTlxyt
— UME (@UMEgob) September 10, 2023
For their part, the British are sending 60 rescuers and four dogs on two military transport planes, as well as a small medical team.
So far, at least 2,100 people have been reported killed in the quake and a further 2,421 injured. The epicentre was in the town of Ighil, in the Atlas Mountains, and with a depth of 8km, occurred shortly after 11pm local time on Saturday September 9. It is the worst earthquake to hit the area since February 29, 1960, when an earthquake of magnitude 5.8 caused between 12,000 and 15,000 deaths in Agadir.
Image: @UMEgob/Twitter
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