A powerful earthquake struck Morocco late on the evening of September 8. The start of the devastating natural disaster, which took more than 600 lives, was caught on CCTV cameras.

The gruesome video from the cameras was published by journalist Muhammad Arif Khan. The video shows how a street in a Moroccan city, which had been living a calm and measured life, turns into an inferno in the blink of an eye.

"A horrible moment of collapse caught on a surveillance camera," the journalist signed the footage.

The surveillance video shows a street in a city in Morocco. Two Moroccans are sitting under the camera, while people pass by doing their business.

Moments later, everything changes. After the earthquake starts, people start running in panic. Some try to find shelter in a small alley, but debris from buildings damaged by the powerful tremors starts falling on them.

Footage shot in the first minutes after the end of the powerful tremors also appeared online. It shows disoriented people wandering through the destroyed streets in clouds of dust.

Judging by the footage, the devastation caused by the earthquake is frightening.

As of the morning of September 9, Morocco reported 296 dead and more than 150 injured as a result of a powerful earthquake.

However, later the number of victims and injured increased to 632 dead and 329 wounded.

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