Government to unveil emergency plan to rebuild quake-stricken area, Minister

The Moroccan Government will unveil, early next week, an emergency plan to reconstruct buildings damaged by Tuesday's powerful earthquake in the region of Al Hoceima (northeastern Morocco), said Thursday, Moroccan Minister of Communication and Government's spokesman.

Nabil Abdallah who was briefing the media following the weekly Cabinet meeting, said the government will also present the "broad lines of a plan supporting the economic activity and speeding up the setting up of basic infrastructure in the region."

According to a latest toll, 571 people were killed and some 400 injured following the earthquake of a magnitude of 6.5 on the Richter scale.

He voiced the Government's resolve to deal with this natural disaster and its impact on the human, economic and social levels, "in the short, middle and long terms."