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00:00 waiting for aid up in the high Atlas Mountains.
00:03 The situation on the ground is dire.
00:06 Residents are in need of food, shelter and clothing after having lost everything.
00:13 We suffered and we're still sad.
00:15 We have no food, nowhere good to sleep.
00:18 Drone footage of the village of Duzru shows the extent of the damage caused by Saturday's
00:24 quake.
00:25 Very few structures remain standing, and many survivors remain traumatized by their ordeal.
00:34 Those four hours, I don't want to think about them anymore.
00:38 If I do, it'll make me cry.
00:40 It was death.
00:41 There was no oxygen, just darkness, no light.
00:45 I really don't want to remember that.
00:50 The more remote areas remain cut off from outside help.
00:56 There are no roads.
00:57 We use animals to carry our remaining belongings down to the camp by the river.
01:02 The Moroccan army is leading the relief efforts with assistance from aid groups.
01:07 But given the scale of the disaster, the needs are immense.
01:11 Makeshift field hospitals have been set up in some areas to treat the injured.
01:16 Local volunteers have been arranging collections of needed goods and organizing deliveries
01:21 to assist survivors.
01:24 The government has given permission for international help from just four countries - Spain, the
01:30 UK, the UAE and Qatar - and they've been assisting rescue teams searching through the rubble,
01:36 still hoping to find survivors.