French-Moroccan actor and comedian Jamel Debbouze is urging tourists to keep visiting Morocco in the wake of an earthquake in the country’s Atlas Mountains region that has killed close to 3,000 people.
France-based Debbouze, who retains strong links with the country where he spent part of his childhood, travelled to the quake-hit city of Marrakech in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.
The quake which measured 7 on the Richter scale hit late on Friday night local time and had its epicenter high in the Atlas Mountains, roughly 43.5 miles south of Marrakech, the old city of which suffered extensive damage.
Most the devastation is in the mountains, where whole villages have been destroyed and more that 300,000 people are impacted.
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