Earthquake with over 2,000 casualties, Kosovo solidifies with Morocco

At least 2,014 people lost their lives and 2,059 suffered injuries as a result of the earthquake that struck Morocco on Friday evening, according to the latest figures published by the country's interior ministry.

At least 1,404 of those injured by the quake are in critical condition.

Following that quake, some politicians, including President Vjosa Osmani, have solidified with the Moroccan people.

Osman has wished them strength and healing to all affected by the devastating earthquake in Morocco.

Kosovo's “people solidify with the people of Morocco at this tragic time of”, Osmani wrote.

Even the chairman of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, has expressed grief after the earthquake, where more than 800 people died in Morocco, writes Express newspaper.

The grief behind the devastating earthquake that took many lives in Morocco. Kosovo and its people associated with the Moroccan people and families, which suffered from this earthquake. We pray that the number of victims will remain, while the wounded wish you rapid recovery!”, Haradinaj wrote in a post in “Facebook”

Friday's quake had a rate of 6.8 until it was followed by another 4.9, about 19 minutes later.

The episode of the deadly earthquake in Morocco was the area of Ighali, a rural mountain district, home to small agricultural villages in al-Haouz province near the town of the Hukaimeden ski resort in the Atlas Mountains.

The last major earthquake in the country had occurred in the northeast city of Al Hoceima in 2004, killing at least 628 people.

And the deadliest was in Agadir on the South Atlantic Coast in 1960. The 6.7 magnitude earthquake killed about 12,000.