The collapse of two buildings killed 22 people in the northern Moroccan city of Fes, authorities said Wednesday, in the deadliest accident of its kind in the kingdom in recent years.
Sixteen others were wounded as searches for “other people who may be buried under the rubble” were ongoing, the country’s official news agency MAP reported.
The Fes prosecutor’s office said in a statement, there had been a family celebration in one of the buildings at the time of the collapse while the other was unoccupied.
The prosecutor’s office added an investigation had been opened to “determine the real causes” of the incident.
The two adjacent structures collapsed overnight in the major northern city’s Al-Moustakbal neighbourhood, in the Al-Massira area, according to MAP.