‘The toll is linked to the fact that we have infrastructure issues’

Dina Anwar, a reporter for World News Morocco, was in the country’s capital, Rabat, when the earthquake hit.

“We were lucky enough in Rabat to be evacuated immediately; unfortunately, it was not the same for other cities. We didn’t know what to do, we only knew that we shouldn’t be in our houses,” she recalls about last night.

She says people around her were panicking, but as a journalist, she was also trying to keep up with what was happening as well as trying to reach out to her loved ones in Agadir, her hometown.

“Communications are definitely impacted, there is an issue with trying to reach everyone. So many old buildings have been destroyed, it is a struggle to try to check on your loved ones.”

She says rural areas have been impacted more by the earthquake:

“And the most impacted areas are where we have a lot of old buildings. The toll is linked to the fact that we have infrastructure issues.”