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00:00 Everything has collapsed in the town of Talat in Yaqub.
00:04 The police station, the local school, the post office,
00:09 not to mention hundreds of homes and businesses.
00:12 The town has all but disappeared.
00:15 It's hard to imagine that 8,000 people once lived here.
00:18 Fatima was born in Talat in Yaqub but now lives in Marrakech.
00:23 After the earthquake struck, she drove for 11 hours to return to her hometown.
00:29 She says it's now unrecognisable.
00:32 This was my dad's shop.
00:36 It was a small shop.
00:38 There it is.
00:40 This is the road she grew up on.
00:44 There, that's our house.
00:49 It was here and my grandmother's was here.
00:56 Fatima has lost 11 family members to the earthquake.
00:59 The latest victim is her 15-year-old cousin.
01:03 His dad and other people tried to get him out.
01:09 They got my grandmother out, his wife out, and his grandson and his granddaughter.
01:17 And when they came back for my little cousin, it was too late.
01:23 Do you feel like your town has completely disappeared?
01:26 It's disappeared.
01:28 It's disappeared, that's sure and certain.
01:31 Do you see anything here?
01:33 There's nothing left. That's it.
01:36 It's disappeared.
01:38 It's disappeared with its people, with everything.
01:41 A few metres away, a team of Moroccan firefighters are busy working through the wreckage.
01:49 Their sniffer dog shows signs it's detected a body.
01:52 The town's school teacher, who is still missing, used to live here.
01:56 Rescue workers aren't holding on to much hope.
02:00 We've pulled out other victims from other homes.
02:06 All of them are dead, yeah.
02:10 It's been days since the quake struck.
02:15 It's too late.
02:17 It's too late.
02:18 Further away from Talet in Yaakoub, there are people in even more remote areas still waiting for help from emergency services.
02:27 With many still buried under the rubble, the country is bracing for the death toll to climb.