The head chef of Yaletown's Moltaqa Moroccan Restaurant has been in Vancouver for just five months, but his hometown is near the epicentre of last week's deadly earthquake.
In broken English, Abid Es Sadeqay paints a heartbreaking picture of home — families torn apart, children who have lost parents or siblings, and picturesque homes built of soil crumbled to the ground.
“They were poor people there in those villages,” he tells Global News through his co-worker, Soukaina Bucko, who translates.2:50Rescue efforts are ongoing, and while critical supplies such as food and water are making their way to some impacted areas, as of Monday afternoon, Moroccan officials had accepted government made from just four countries — Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates — in addition to approved non-government organizations.
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