Contradictory reports have emerged about a collision between a school bus and a train in Morocco\'s Bengueriri city (70km north of Marrakech). The Moroccan News Agency (MAP), earlier quoted a security source saying that nine students were killed and a further 10 injured, before changing its report to say that four students were killed and 16 injured, with five critically wounded. Meanwhile, a medical source from Ibn Tufail Hospital in Marrakech, told Arabstoday the five students had died, and 17 critically wounded out of 21 injured. Marrakech\'s new mayor, Mohammed Fawzi, who was appointed only two days ago, visited the injured students and the families of the dead in hospital. He was accompanied by King Mohammed VI\'s envoy, General Hosni Bensleiman. The accident took place when a school bus tried to cross a railway at the same time as a train was approaching at high speed. Local sources said the bus driver was drunk. The accident has enraged the residents of Bengeurir, considered one of Morocco\'s poorest cities. The government has recently been debating issues with transport security in the country.
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