Fading hopes Offers of help flood in amid desperate search efforts

Select foreign aid and rescue teams joined desperate efforts to find any remaining survivors high in Morocco's Atlas mountains this week, as the death toll passed 2,800 people after a powerful earthquake that rendered many villages inaccessible.

- Ruth Michaelson and Peter Beaumont and Dounia Z Mseffer 

Moroccan authorities said they had "responded favourably" to offers of help from visiting search and rescue teams from Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates, but were yet to accept further offers of aid from other countries despite the urgent nature of the disaster.

Turkey, which experienced a deadly earthquake in February, offered emergency response teams and aid. Its president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said it would help "with all means" if its offer was accepted.