Morocco earthquake: ‘I sent my 8-year-old son in for a knife to cut a melon and the house collapsed on him’
Hamid ben Henna, who lost his son Marouane in the Morocco earthquake. Photo: Reuters TV
A Moroccan father has told of how he sent his eight-year-old son into the kitchen to fetch a knife for a family dinner moments before he was tragically killed in Friday��s devastating earthquake.
Hamid Ben Henna, a resident in Morocco’s remote Atlas Mountains region, said his family had been enjoying a lamb and vegetable tagine stew moments before the disaster struck.
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