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Live blog update| Morocco earthquake

UN offers assistance

International response to the earthquake is starting to be heard.

United Nations spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that the UN stood ready to help the Moroccan government in "its efforts to assist the impacted population".

Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India currently hosting the G20 summit, said his country was ready to "offer all possible assistance" to Morocco.

Meanwhile Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, said: "My thoughts are with the many victims of this disaster and with the local emergency services. I conveyed my sincere condolences to Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch."