Hicham Ahazar didn’t feel any pain when he injured his leg. All he was thinking about was getting himself and his sister out of the house that was collapsing around them.
Ahazar, 25, lives in Asni, a mountain town that was badly damaged. He and his sister were eating dinner — tajine, a Moroccan specialty — when the ground started shaking late on Friday night.
“I grabbed her and we ran outside. And as soon as we got outside, a whole wall collapsed,” he said.
It was during that escape that Ahazar hurt his leg. He doesn’t know how exactly he got the deep cut on his knee. He thinks it was likely smashed by a piece of debris.
“I looked at my leg later and I saw there was a lot of blood. But I almost didn’t notice it. It was crazy,” he said. It wasn’t until Monday afternoon that he finally got to see a professional and have the wound cleaned and bandaged properly.
Speaking to CNN while waiting for that treatment at a field hospital that opened in Asni on Monday morning, Ahazar said he and his sister have spent the past three nights sleeping outside.
Their home near the Atlas Mountains is no longer safe, like the hundreds of others in their area.
Hicham Ahazar didn’t feel any pain when he injured his leg. All he was thinking about was getting himself and his sister out of the house that was collapsing around them.
Ahazar, 25, lives in Asni, a mountain town that was badly damaged. He and his sister were eating dinner — tajine, a Moroccan specialty — when the ground started shaking late on Friday night.
“I grabbed her and we ran outside. And as soon as we got outside, a whole wall collapsed,” he said.
It was during that escape that Ahazar hurt his leg. He doesn’t know how exactly he got the deep cut on his knee. He thinks it was likely smashed by a piece of debris.
“I looked at my leg later and I saw there was a lot of blood. But I almost didn’t notice it. It was crazy,” he said. It wasn’t until Monday afternoon that he finally got to see a professional and have the wound cleaned and bandaged properly.
Speaking to CNN while waiting for that treatment at a field hospital that opened in Asni on Monday morning, Ahazar said he and his sister have spent the past three nights sleeping outside.
Their home near the Atlas Mountains is no longer safe, like the hundreds of others in their area.
