42 killed in morocco\s worstever bus crash
Thursday 24 July 2025
Last Updated : GMT 05:17:37
Emiratesvoice, emirates voice

42 killed in Morocco\'s worst-ever bus crash

Emiratesvoice, emirates voice

Emiratesvoice, emirates voice 42 killed in Morocco\'s worst-ever bus crash

Rabat – AFP

A bus plunged into a ravine in the Atlas mountains of southern Morocco early on Tuesday killing at least 42 people, a security official said, in the worst such accident recorded in the kingdom. All the victims were Moroccan, a local official told AFP. \"But we are still in the process of identifying the bodies, as well as the injured,\" he said. The accident took place at around 2:00 am (0100 GMT) when the vehicle fell off a main road in Haouz province, around 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Marrakesh, one of Morocco\'s top tourist destinations. The crash also left some 25 people injured, who were taken to different hospitals in the region, according to the local official. The official MAP news agency, which said the bus fell 150 metres (165 yards) gave the same death toll of 42, saying that five of the victims died in hospital, and that 24 people were injured in the crash, four of them critically. King Mohammed VI expressed his condolences to the families of the victims, in a palace statement, and announced that he would pay for their transport, funeral and burial costs. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear. But the bus, with 67 people on board, was evidently overloaded, a source at the ministry of transport said, with the largest bus category in Morocco authorised to carry 54 people. An official in Haouz province said an inquiry had been launched and a crisis group set up. The provincial governor Younes El Bathaoui arrived at the site of the crash to supervise the rescue operation, according to MAP. The tragedy occurred as the bus was heading towards Marrakesh, after crossing the Tizi-n-Tichka pass, the highest in Morocco. The road, linking the central Moroccan city with the Sahara gateway town of Ouarzazate, winds through the mountains for dozens of kilometres (miles). It was the worst bus crash recorded in Morocco, which has a particularly poor history of road safety. In November 2010, 24 people drowned when a bus carrying workmen tumbled into a river near the capital Rabat. Late last month, on a road in Haouz province, a crash caused when a lorry overturned left eight people dead and 15 injured, five of them seriously. And at the end of July, 12 people were killed in central Morocco when a lorry driver lost control of his vehicle after one of its tyres was punctured and crashed into a bus. Road accidents in Morocco claimed around 4,200 lives last year, up by around 12 percent on 2010, according to figures from the transport ministry.

Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

42 killed in morocco\s worstever bus crash 42 killed in morocco\s worstever bus crash

 



Name *

E-mail *

Comment Title*

Comment *

: Characters Left

Mandatory *

Terms of use

Publishing Terms: Not to offend the author, or to persons or sanctities or attacking religions or divine self. And stay away from sectarian and racial incitement and insults.

I agree with the Terms of Use

Security Code*

42 killed in morocco\s worstever bus crash 42 killed in morocco\s worstever bus crash

 



GMT 16:17 2018 Thursday ,30 August

Five Saudi women pilots granted GACA licences

GMT 05:06 2024 Tuesday ,06 February

New hunt for flight MH370 gets under way

GMT 11:03 2018 Tuesday ,23 January

No end to eyesores at Taj Mahal

GMT 07:51 2017 Friday ,10 February

Iraq's 'cycling girls' ride for freedom

GMT 23:59 2017 Friday ,06 January

Pakistan turns on fourth nuclear plant

GMT 07:17 2012 Thursday ,08 November

S Korea falls silent as students sit key exam

GMT 01:54 2017 Monday ,13 November

Two wanted individuals arrested in Saudi Arabia

GMT 17:28 2017 Thursday ,10 August

UN chief: Syria probe must continue

GMT 08:51 2012 Wednesday ,28 March

Graham Greene joins \'Defiance\' cast
 
 Emirates Voice Facebook,emirates voice facebook  Emirates Voice Twitter,emirates voice twitter Emirates Voice Rss,emirates voice rss  Emirates Voice Youtube,emirates voice youtube  Emirates Voice Youtube,emirates voice youtube

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2025 ©

Maintained and developed by Arabs Today Group SAL.
All rights reserved to Arab Today Media Group 2025 ©

emiratesvoieen emiratesvoiceen emiratesvoiceen emiratesvoiceen
emiratesvoice emiratesvoice emiratesvoice
emiratesvoice
بناية النخيل - رأس النبع _ خلف السفارة الفرنسية _بيروت - لبنان
emiratesvoice, Emiratesvoice, Emiratesvoice