Two buildings Fezthe third largest city in Moroccosuddenly collapsed, causing dozens of dead and many people were injured in critical condition.
Local authorities are continuing rescue efforts and it is believed more bodies could be found among the rubble.
The fact contributes to a List of landslides that the city has suffered recently and that the population has demanded action.
This Wednesday December 10thin the Al-Mustaqbal district, in Fez, An uninhabited building collapsed, triggering the collapse of another four-story building that was next to it and that actually had people living in it.
The event happened very quickly, so the eight families living in the second building did not have time to escape.
One of the residents, known as Idris, narrated Hespress that the collapse occurred two minutes. “It was something sudden. We were shocked, We couldn’t sleep, we ran out of our apartments.“, he told the Moroccan media.
The tragedy passed 22 people died and 16 were injuredincluding women and children.
However, authorities indicated that the death toll could rise as some of the injured were very serious and rescue efforts were continuing, so it was not ruled out that more bodies would be found.
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Rescue workers are working in Fes, where two buildings collapsed
Detectives launched an investigation to determine the cause of the collapse, while residents were quick to blame it Neglect in constructionthere, as reported Reuterssaid there had been signs of cracks in the buildings for some time.
The latest accident was in addition to several that have occurred Moroccoand especially in Fezin recent years.
In 2010, a tower collapsed in the historic city of Meknes, leaving large remains behind 41 dead.
Two years later, two landslides occurred within a week, which also claimed lives.
One of them occurred in the western city of Marrakesh, where a house collapsed, killing two children, while the other took place in a four-story building, causing the deaths of four people.
A little further back in time, in February 2024, five people died when a house collapsed in the old town of Fez.
In January this year, the country’s housing minister, Adib Ben Ibrahim, acknowledged this 13,700 buildings across the country were in imminent danger of collapse.
The minister’s warning was repeated just four months later, in May nine people died due to the collapse of a ruined building in another district of Fez.
Nevertheless, this city was one of many affected by anti-government protests led by the a few months ago teenagerswhich, among other things, demands They called for improvements to the city’s infrastructure.
With information from agencies.
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