“A new born baby is dug out of the debris after a magnitude 6.8 earthquake devastates Morocco (sic)” reads a post published on X, formerly Twitter, on September 10, 2023.
The post features a 12-minute clip showing a man digging out a newborn and what looked like a placenta from the dirt. The words “KeshabRajjoshi” appear at the bottom of the footage. Another X account shared the same claim.
Many people in the comment section believed that the baby was rescued after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake devastated Morocco on September 8, 2023.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed and more than 5,000 injured, with the quake wiping out villages atop the Atlas mountains (archived here).
It was Morocco's strongest on record and the deadliest to hit the country since a 1960 earthquake killed between 12,000 and 15,000 people (archived here).
Last-ditch efforts to find more survivors trapped under the rubble were still ongoing as of September 13, 2023. However, the claim the baby was rescued in Morocco is false.
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