Such collapses are not uncommon in Moroccan cities undergoing rapid population growth. In Fez, a collapse in May killed 10 people and injured seven in a building that had already been slated for evacuation, according to Moroccan outlet Le360.

According to local news outlet 2M, more than 1,300 are dead and 1,832 people are injured after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit Morocco on Friday night Julia Moore is a TV writer-reporter at PEOPLE. A graduate of Northwestern University, she has been working ...

FILE - Moroccan navy attempts to intercept a boy swimming to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, at the border between Morocco and Spain, on May 19, 2021. The Moroccan navy said it intercepted 141 people attempting to traverse the Atlantic Ocean as migration ...

RABAT, Morocco(AP) — Morocco has charged more than 2,400 people over recent youth-led protests that turned violent, a sweeping response to some of the country’s largest anti-government demonstrations in years. Of the 2,480 charged, 1,473 people remain ...

ATHENS, Ga. - The clock is ticking to find any more survivors after that devastating 6.8-magnitude earthquake with the death told near 2,700. In metro Atlanta, people with ties to the country are doing everything to help in the recovery effort. "I was in a ...

Update 1:13 p.m. EDT Sept. 10: The Interior Ministry confirmed that 2,122 people were killed in the earthquake Friday, according to The Associated Press. At least 2,421 were injured with 1,404 in critical condition. -- Jessica Goodman, Cox Media Group ...

Morocco is experiencing heavy rain and snowfall in the Atlas mountains, following seven years of drought that emptied some of its main reservoirs.