‘A dark Saturday’: Montreal’s Moroccan community in shock after tragic earthquake

Montreal is home to Canada’s largest Moroccan population and on Saturday, many community members awoke to the tragic news that the country’s central region was struck overnight by its largest recorded earthquake in over a century.

Recent reports from Morocco’s interior minister indicate that the death toll has now reached 1,037,

. The epicentre of the 6.8 magnitude quake was in the country’s High Atlas Mountains region, which is about 71km southwest of the…