Eleven people die in tragic road accident in central morocco

Eleven people were killed and 18 others were injured in a tragic road accident when a passengers coach overturned on Sunday near the central city of Fez (200 km east of Rabat.

Five people were previously reported dead and the rescue teams took six other killed passengers out of the debris of the coach that was carrying 27 travellers bound to the northern town of Tetouan.

The accident is among the most serious ones in Morocco in the past months.

Each year, some 3,500 people die in road accidents in Morocco.