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At least six dead in Morocco train crash: railway official
RABAT, Oct 16, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A train derailed near the Moroccan
capital killing at least six people and injuring dozens of others on Tuesday,
a railway official said.
“The derailment has killed six people according to the latest count and
left 86 injured in serious condition,” Mohamed Rabie Khlie, head of the
kingdom’s national railway company ONCF, he told reporters at the scene.
“An investigation has been opened to determine the causes of the
accident,” said Khlie.
An AFP photographer said rescue teams were working to retrieve bodies
from the overturned train whose carriages had toppled across the tracks.
The crash occurred some 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Rabat between
the towns of Kenitra and Sale, with local media saying the train driver was
among the dead.
King Mohammed VI said he would pay the burial costs of the victims and
for the treatment of the injured, who were taken to Rabat’s military
hospital, according to a royal cabinet statement.
BSS/AFP/RY/1926 hrs