Morocco’s Royal Armed Forces (FAR) are continuing their full mobilization to aid the victims of the recent earthquake that struck the Al Haouz region and its surrounding areas last Friday.
Their mission encompasses caring for the wounded, supporting and transporting the injured to nearby health centers or hospitals, and supplying food and shelter to local populations.
According to FAR Maroc, a forum dedicated to military news in Morocco, approximately 20 helicopters from the Royal Air Force, the Royal Gendarmerie, the Royal Navy, and private helicopters were deployed to support rescue operations in inaccessible regions.
According to the same source, the Royal Armed Forces have reached several disaster-stricken areas, prioritizing the care of the wounded and the injured.
The FAR provides critical help to isolated locations where the sole access routes have been destroyed by the earthquake.
Intervention teams and equipment, planes, helicopters, drones, and engineering resources, as well as logistics centers, are dispatched to offer the necessary assistance to the impacted areas.
“The necessary arrangements have been made at the level of the FAR General Staff and all FAR headquarters throughout the Kingdom, in terms of liaison and coordination with local authorities,” according to a FAR press release.
King Mohammed VI, Supreme Commander and Chief of General Staff of the Royal Armed Forces, ordered the military on Saturday to urgently deploy important human and logistical resources, as well as air and land special intervention units to assist the populations that were affected by the earthquake.
The king also instructed the military to set up a medical-surgical field hospital to offer onsite medical care.
The new death toll of the powerful 7-magnitude earthquake that hit Morocco Friday night reached 2,681 dead, in addition to 2,501 injured, according to an update by the Interior Ministry on Monday as of 4:00 p.m.
The majority of deaths were recorded in Al Haouz (1,591), and Taroudant (809).