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Morocco road accident leaves 24 dead
AFP
One of Morocco’s worst-ever road accidents left 24 people dead Sunday in the central province of Azilal, officials said.
They were killed when a minibus carrying passengers to a weekly market in the town of Demnate overturned on a bend, the local authorities said.
They added that an investigation has begun.
Accidents are frequent on the roads of Morocco and other North African countries.
In March 11 people, mostly agricultural workers, died when their minibus slammed into a tree after the driver lost control in the rural town of Brachoua, local officials said at the time.
Many poorer citizens use coaches and mini buses to travel in rural areas.
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.
An average of 3,500 road deaths and 12,000 injuries are recorded annually in Morocco, according to the National Road Safety Agency, with an average of 10 deaths per day.
The figure last year was around 3,200.
Authorities have set out to halve the mortality rate by 2026 ever since the worst bus accident in the country’s history left 42 dead in 2012.
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