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Survivors of Morocco\u2019s deadliest earthquake<\/a> in more than six decades struggled to find food and water on Sunday as the search for the missing continued in hard-to-reach villages and the death toll of more than 2,100 seemed likely to rise further.<\/p>\n Many people spent a second night in the open after the 6.8 magnitude quake hit late on Friday.<\/p>\n Relief workers face the challenge of reaching the worst-affected villages in the High Atlas, a rugged mountain range where settlements are often remote and where many houses crumbled.<\/p>\n The death toll climbed to 2,122 while the count of injured rose to 2,421, many seriously, according to official figures updated late on Sunday by the interior ministry.<\/p>\n Moroccan media reported the collapse of a historically important 12th century mosque, underlining damage to the country\u2019s cultural heritage. The quake also damaged parts of Marrakech old city, a UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/p>\n In Moulay Brahim, a village near the epicentre 40km south of Marrakech, residents described how they had dug the dead from the rubble using their bare hands.<\/p>\n \u201cWe lost our houses and we lost people also and we are sleeping like two days outside,\u201d said 36-year-old Yassin Noumghar, a Moulay Brahim resident.<\/p>\n Complaining of shortages of water, food and power, Noumghar said he had received little government aid so far. \u201cWe want just for our government to help us,\u201d he said, expressing a frustration voiced by others.<\/p>\n Later, sacks of food were unloaded from a truck which local official Mouhamad al-Hayyan said had been organised by the government and civil society organisations.<\/p>\n Twenty-five bodies had been brought to Moulay Brahims small medical clinic, according to staff there who warned they were starting to face a shortage of some first aid supplies.<\/p>\n With many homes built of mud bricks and timber, structures in the area crumbled easily.<\/p>\n It was Morocco\u2019s deadliest earthquake since 1960 when a quake was estimated to have killed at least 12,000 people, according to the US Geological Survey.<\/p>\n Makeshift tents had been erected on a dirt soccer pitch.<\/p>\n Residents were wrapped in blankets after spending the night outside.<\/p>\n One man, who was salvaging mattresses and clothes from his wrecked home, said he believed his neighbours were still under the rubble.<\/p>\n In the village of Amizmiz, 27km west of Moulay Brahim, residents also struggled to find food.<\/p>\n \u201cWe used blankets to make a tent,\u201d said Ali Ait Youssef. \u201cThe tents the government distributed are not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n The government said on Saturday it was taking urgent measures to address the disaster including reinforcing search and rescue teams, providing drinking water and distributing food, tents and blankets.<\/p>\n France said it stood ready to help and was awaiting a formal request from Morocco.<\/p>\n \u201cFrance is ready to offer its aid to Morocco if Morocco decides it is useful,\u201d President Emmanuel Macron said at the G20 Summit in New Delhi.<\/p>\n \u201cThe second they request this aid, it will be deployed,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Other countries offering assistance include Turkey, where earthquakes<\/a> in February killed more than 50,000 people. By Sunday, the Turkish team had not yet departed.<\/p>\n Spain, however, said it had on Sunday received a formal request from Morocco for assistance and would be sending search and rescue teams.<\/p>\n Qatar also said its search and rescue team had departed for Morocco.<\/p>\n