Until Friday night it was a four-floor building with a terrace offering fabulous views towards Mount Toubkal, Morocco’s highest peak at 4,167m, which towered in the distance.
But in the space of 30 seconds, the entire building collapsed, crushing Mustapha’s sister Soad and her 16-year-old son Abdessamad.
He pointed to the two spots where he and other villagers eventually pulled their lifeless bodies out of the wreckage.
Moulay Brahim was near the epicentre of Morocco’s worst earthquake on record, which by Monday night had already claimed 2,681 lives - half of them in the in Al-Haouz province where the village is located.
