TAFEGHAGHTE, Morocco — The smell of rotting bodies hangs in the air in this small mountain village, whose dead have been buried in shallow, temporary graves without caskets. Bramble and stones cover them to keep the dogs away.
At least 2,680 people were killed and more than 2,500 were injured after Friday night’s magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck here in the High Atlas Mountains, southwest of Marrakech, according to Morocco’s Interior Ministry.
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