Morocco minibus plunges into ravine, kills all 24 passengers FMTNews FMTWorld
RABAT: A minibus carrying market-goers in Morocco plunged into a ravine today, killing 24 people in one of the North African country’s worst-ever road accidents, officials said.
11 people, mostly agricultural workers, died in March when their minibus slammed into a tree after the driver lost control in the rural town of Brachoua, local officials said at the time.In August last year, 23 people were killed and 36 injured when their bus overturned on a bend east of Morocco’s economic capital Casablanca.
In neighbouring Algeria, 34 people were killed on July 19 when a passenger bus collided head-on with a pickup truck carrying fuel cans and burst into flames, deep in the southern Sahara region, officials said.
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