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MOROCCO: 15 feared dead during food aid distribution

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Tragedy struck in the Moroccan town of Sidi Boulaalam in Essaouira province when no less than 15 people were feared dead in a stampede while food aid was distributed.

According to reports, 40 other people were injured in the stampede as aid was being handed out by a private local charity with most of the victims said to be women and elderly people.

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Witnesses told local media that this year’s annual food aid distribution at a local market in Sidi Boulaalam, an impoverished town with just over 8,000 inhabitants, attracted a larger crowd than usual.

“This year there were lots of people, several hundred people,” a witness said.

“People shoved, they broke down the barriers,” he said, adding that the injured had been evacuated to a hospital in Marrakesh.

Morocco’s interior ministry said that King Muhammed VI had instructed the local authorities to help those affected, adding that he would personally cover all medical and funeral costs.

 

 

 

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