By Kaouthar Oudrhiri:A minibus carrying market-goers in Morocco plunged into a ravine on Sunday, killing 24 people in one of the North African country’s worst-ever road accidents, officials said. Accidents are frequent on the roads of Morocco and other North African countries, which see thousands of road deaths annually. 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. 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. One of Tunisia’s worst road accidents occurred in 2019 when a bus plunged into a ravine, killing at least 24 Tunisians and injuring 18 others.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 06, 2023 16:08 UTC