Operaciones de rescate en Marruecos

Se estima que la cifra de víctimas se acerca a 600.

Rescue efforts are continuing in north-eastern Morocco, where there was an earthquake early on Tuesday morning.

Buildings were destroyed outside the port city of al-Hoceima and in the nearby mountain area. Around five hundred and sixty people may have died in the earthquake.

This report from Pascale Harter:

Day has broken on a desolate scene in the Rif mountain region of Morocco. In al-Hoceima, people spent the night huddled together under makeshift plastic tents. They have either been made homeless by the earthquake or are simply too scared to stay inside, as aftershocks rattle through the city, a terrifying reminder of Tuesday's devastation.

For those in the mountain villages scattered around al-Hoceima, desperation is turning to tragedy. Rescue workers have been unable to get to the worst hit areas where they believe whole families have been buried alive as their homes collapsed. Volunteers have worked through the night, but they are poorly trained and plainly under-equipped, often using their bare hands to clear rubble. They hope that today digging equipment and expertise will reach this inaccessible mountain region.

But with the new day has dawned the knowledge that for the families in the isolated rural villages here help almost certainly comes too late. Already talk has turned from what can be done to rescue survivors from the rubble to what can be done for a homeless population already mourning their dead.

Pascale Harter, BBC, al-Hoceima, Morocco

Day has broken
El día amaneció

desolate
desolada

huddled together
muy cerca el uno del otro

makeshift
improvisadas

aftershocks
réplicas

devastation
devastación, estragos

desperation
desesperación

rubble
escombros

isolated rural villages
pequeñas poblaciones rurales aisladas

mourning
en este caso, llorando