Aid pledges surge as Morocco earthquake death toll passes 2,000

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Families in Marrakesh huddled outdoors in the early hours of Sunday, having spent a second night on the streets after Morocco‘s deadliest earthquake in more than half a century left many fearing their homes were no longer safe to return to.

Uncertainty gripped many in Marrakesh, around 70 kilometres north-east of the epicentre, as they worried the quake that has killed more than 2,000 people may have damaged their homes, or that an aftershock could cause further destruction in the…