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 reporters. “But we are still in the process of identifying the bodies, as well as the injured,” he added.
The accident took place at around 10am Hong Kong time on Tuesday when the vehicle fell off a main road in Haouz province, around 100 kilometres 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 a local official.
The official MAP news agency, which said the bus fell 150 metres 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.
The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.