The 6.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Morocco a week ago brought thousands of victims and devastated the country. Sad stories have been reported, one of which is the story of a teacher who lost all 32 of her students in the devastating earthquake. Her thoughts immediately turned to her students when she felt the earthquake.
Nesreen Abu ElFadel was in Marrakesh, but Adaseel, the mountain village where her school and students' homes were located, was closer to the epicenter.
The Arabic and French language teacher returned to Adaseel where she went to look for the children.
She discovered that all 32 of them, aged 6 to 12, had lost their lives.
"I went to the village and started asking about my children: "Where is Somaya? Where is Youssef? where is this girl Where is that boy?” The answer came a few hours later: 'They are all dead.'
"I imagined holding my class attendance sheet and putting a line between one student's name after another, until I had scratched 32 names, they are all now dead," she told the BBC .
They were among almost 3,000 people killed by the strongest earthquake ever recorded in Morocco, which struck on the evening of September 8.
The hardest hit areas were south of Marrakesh, where many mountain villages were completely destroyed. Adaseel was one of those places.
The language teacher described her students as "angels" and respectful children who were eager to learn. Despite struggling with poverty and a crushing cost of living crisis, children and their families thought of going to school as "the most important thing in the world".
The Moroccan government has temporarily suspended classes in the worst-hit areas.