Morocco Quake: Teacher Mourns Loss of Entire Class in Devastated Village

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Morocco Quake: Teacher Mourns Loss of Entire Class in Devastated Village

In Morocco, a teacher lost all her students in the powerful earthquake that struck part of the country on September 8. They lived in a village that is among the areas most affected by the earthquake.

Nisrine Abou ElFadel will never see her 32 schoolchildren, aged 6 to 12, whom she taught Arabic and French in Adaseel, one of the villages completely destroyed by the devastating earthquake of September 8. The instructor was in Marrakech, far from the epicenter. "Where is Somaya? Where is Youssef? Where is that girl? Where is that boy?" she asked when she returned to the village after the earthquake. "They’re all dead," she was told a few hours later. "I imagined myself holding the attendance sheet of my class and drawing a line