Off the wire
• Results of WCBA League  • Lanterns light up Singapore's Chinatown to embrace Year of Rooster  • Real Madrid return to league action with easy win over Granada  • Pressure on as Barca visit Villarreal  • British troops to train in jungle warfare in Sierra Leone  • 10 crocodiles break loose from zoo after floods hit southern Thailand  • Six arrested in connection with assassination of Burundi's environment minister  • Central China reports one H7N9 case  • Fierce gunfire heard near military barracks in Abidjan  • Celebration for coming Chinese Spring Festival kicks off in central Japan  
You are here: 　 Home

10 killed, 22 injured in road accident in southern Morocco

Xinhua, January 7, 2017 Adjust font size:

A total of 10 people were killed and 22 others were injured on Saturday in a road accident near the southern city of Agadir, Morocco, local authorities said.

The accident occurred when a truck and a bus crashed some 40 km away from Agadir, the same source pointed out.

The injured were carried to Hassan II hospital in Agadir, while another in a critical condition was flown via a helicopter to Marrakech.

An investigation was launched.

This deadly accident came after two dramatic accidents in late December.

Altogether 10 people were killed after a crash between a truck and a car in the northern city of Chefchaouen. Another accident killed nine people and injured 45 others when a bus, carrying a group of young people coming back from a picnic, overturned on the road linking the cities of Fez and Sidi Kacem.

Deadly traffic accidents are common in the North African country.

Figures from the Moroccan Transport Ministry show that a total of 3,565 people were killed in the country last year. Endit