40 injured in bus accident in Sidi Kacem Saturday

Forty people were injured, including three in serious condition and 15 seriously injured Saturday when a bus was off the road at the town of Taoughlit in the province of Sidi Kacem.

The accident occurred around 12:30 pm when the bus in irection to Fez, veered off the road 12 km from the town of El Jorf Melha, making 40 wounded, including three in serious condition and 15 seriously injured, said local authorities source.

All the injured were transferred to the provincial hospital of Sidi Kacem aboard seven ambulances within the surrounding local communities and two other members of civil protection, precise-the same source.

Immediately the local authorities as well as the elements of the Royal Gendarmerie and civil protection have rushed to the scene of the accident to supervise the rescue operation.