MOSCOW, September 12 Matches of national teams and club tournaments, held under the auspices of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), until the end of next week will begin with a minute of silence in memory of the victims of the earthquake in Morocco and floods in Libya, according to the organization’s official account on the social network X (formerly the social network Twitter).
An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 occurred in Morocco on the night of September 9. The outbreak lay at a depth of ten kilometers, 80 kilometers from Marrakesh. This was followed by at least four aftershocks with magnitudes 4.8, 3.4, 3.2 and 3.3. The death toll exceeded 2.9 thousand people.
The number of victims of floods in eastern Libya caused by Cyclone Daniel has exceeded 5.3 thousand people, several thousand are considered missing. The cities of Sousse and Derna in the east of the country were declared natural disaster zones.
