Responders still digging for bodies in Morocco

Survivors sit outside a relief tent loaded with supplies. Pic/AP

The stench of death wafted through the village of Imi N'Tala high up in Morocco's Atlas Mountains, where last week's catastrophic earthquake razed the hamlet's mud-brick buildings and killed dozens. Bulldozers and responders have been digging through the wreckage around the clock in the hopes of finding the eight to 10 corpses still underneath, even as an aftershock on Wednesday evening rattled already frayed nerves.

"The mountain was split in half and started falling. Houses were fully destroyed. Everything is gone," a local man said as crews worked to recover bodies, including his sister's. Death and injury counts have risen as responders reached more of these remote villages, where they dug up bodies and sent people to hospitals. Moroccan authorities have reported 2,946 deaths and several thousand injuries, with over 300,000 affected.

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