Powerful earthquake in Morocco kills more than 2,000 people

Residents flee their homes after an earthquake in Moulay Brahim village, outside Marrakesh, Morocco (Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP)

Moroccan earthquake survivors huddled for a night in the open on the High Atlas Mountains on Saturday, a day after the country's deadliest quake in more than six decades killed more than 2,000 people and laid waste to villages.

Neighbours were still searching for survivors buried on the slopes, where houses of mud brick, stone and rough wood were cracked open and mosque minarets toppled by the quake that struck late on Friday. The historic old city of Marrakech also suffered extensive damage.