King Mohamed VI of Morocco visited this Tuesday, at the Mohamed VI University Hospital Center in Marrakech, those injured in the earthquake that hit several southern towns last Friday and which, so far, has caused the death of more than 2,900 people. and left more than 5,500 injured.

The monarch arrived at the center by car, around 4:30 p.m. (5:30 p.m. Spanish peninsular time), accompanied by a long procession of official and security vehicles.. He has also donated blood for the victims.

This is the second appearance of Mohamed VI after the earthquake, after the working meeting that he chaired last Saturday with civil and military officials in which he ordered the deployment of an emergency program to care for the victims and rehabilitate the damaged buildings, and decreed three days of official mourning.

After the earthquake, which occurred on Friday night and had a magnitude of 7 (the worst in the country's history in a century), Mohamed VI also ordered the urgent deployment of the Army with important human and air and land logistical resources and also the establishment of a military hospital.

In 2004, Morocco suffered another earthquake in the Riffian town of Al Hoceima that caused hundreds of deaths.. Then, the monarch, who was in the first years of his reign, traveled to the area for several days to care for the victims.