Morocco Earthquake: Shirtless Man Flees House With PlayStation in Hand, Pic Goes Viral

Hundreds of people lost their lives after a powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake jolted Morocco on Friday night. “According to a provisional report, the earthquake killed 296 people in the provinces and municipalities of Al-Haouz, Marrakesh, Ouarzazate, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudant," Morocco’s interior ministry said in a statement. Also, another 153 people were injured. While horrifying images and videos have emerged, one pic which is doing rounds on social media has people perplexed. The image, which is now doing rounds on social media, shows a shirtless man who abandoned all of his possessions during the earthquake but carried his PlayStation along with him.

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The image shows the man standing shirtless on the roads of Marrakesh, along with his PS5. It is not just him in the image but he is surrounded by many people.

Here, have a look for yourself:

“Man said: “there is life after an earthquake and it isn’t worth leaving your ps5 behind,” sarcastically wrote an ‘X’ user. Another person mentioned, Bro remembered the crazy stock situation with PS5 due to chip shortage, he ain’t doing all that waiting again.”

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Meanwhile, The United States Geological Survey has claimed that this was the strongest tremor to hit that part of the North African country in more than a century. The quake hit 71 kilometers southwest of Marrakesh. The earthquake was also felt in the coastal cities of Rabat, Casablanca and Essaouira. “We heard screams at the time of the tremor," a resident of Essaouira, 200 km west of Marrakech, told AFP by telephone. “People are in the squares, in the cafes, preferring to sleep outside. Pieces of facades have fallen".