Powerful earthquake hits Morocco, scale of damage unclear

Residents of Marrakech, the nearest major city to the epicentre, said some buildings had collapsed. Pan-Arab al-Arabiya news channel reported that five people were killed from one family, citing unnamed local sources.

A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Morocco tumbled buildings and sent people fleeing their homes in several cities late on Friday, residents said, but the scale of damage nearest the epicentre in the High Atlas mountains was not immediately clear.