Morocco earthquake: Unbearable pain in village where people have disappeared under rubble

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Imi N'Tala is a village that has been torn apart and is haunted by sudden, awful change - the homes that have gone and the lives that have been wrecked by the devastating earthquake.

A man with sunken, exhausted eyes, walks through the rubble and destruction following theHe walks towards an area of wasteland just to the side of the road, which is already full of freshly dug mounds and rudimentary markers.A father buries his son in the village of Imi N'Tala

He lays it down on top, then walks away. Moments after burying his son, he walks to the village and joins a group of volunteers, digging through the rubble.This pitiful scene is almost the first thing we see when we arrive at Imi N'Tala, a village that is hard to reach and impossible to forget. "There is always hope," says Jim Chaston, who is leading the team here. He has been working in natural disasters for more than 20 years.

There's nothing left here. The people, homes, the road, everything - it's all been destroyed. Rescue teams are looking for survivors but with little expectation. This feels much more like a recovery operation than a rescue.

 

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