RABAT: Two major bus crashes in Morocco and Algeria killed a total of 19 people on Saturday and injured almost three dozen more.
According to media reports, the accident took place in southern Morocco when a truck collided with a passenger bus on a highway near the city of Agadir. Ten people were burned aliv
e and 22 others were injured, one critically.
The serio
usly injured was flown to a hospital in Marrakesh via he
licopter, while the others were treated in Agadir.
In neighbouring Alg
eria, nine people were killed and 12 injured on Saturday when a bus overturned in M’Silah province south of the capital Algiers, state television said.The victims were five women, t
hree men and a child.
