RABAT, July 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Moroccan emergency crews pulled 15 bodies from the mud after a rare summer downpour triggered a landslide that buried a minibus, the authorities said on Friday.
The victims – eleven women, three men and one child – were found in the bus buried about 20m under the masses of earth and rock dislodged by the rain, local authorities said.
“There are no survivors,” they said in a statement.
The bus was buried on Wednesday evening when a deluge in the Atlas mountains south of Marrakesh triggered flash flooding.
Images released by the authorities show excavators working to dig a path to the bus, more than 24 hours after it was engulfed by the debris.
A weather alert on Tuesday warned of storms in several provinces in the North African country, which rarely receives summer rains.
Every year, nearly 3,500 people are killed on the North African country’s roads. — NNN-AGENCIES
