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Powerful earthquake strikes southern Morocco

Melissa Kent
September 9, 2023

Search and rescue operations are underway after a deadly earthquake tore through western Morocco killing more than 1000 people. It was the strongest to hit the region in more than a century.

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Melissa Kent Award-winning Canadian broadcast news and current affairs journalist
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