At least nine people were killed and several others injured when a residential building collapsed in the Moroccan city of Fez on Thursdaysaid local officials. TASR informs about it according to the reports of the AFP and Reuters agencies.
- A five-story residential building collapsed in the Moroccan city of Fez on Thursday.
- At least nine people died on the spot when a building collapsed in Fez.
- At least six people were pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Fez.
- The authorities ordered the evacuation of neighboring buildings due to the risk of further collapses.
- Around thirty-eight thousand and eight hundred buildings are at imminent risk of collapse across Morocco.
Residents of neighboring buildings in a densely populated neighborhood were urged by the authorities to they evacuated as a precaution due to the increased risk of further collapses, while the search for possible survivors is underway. By noon local time, six people had been pulled from the rubble of the building. According to AFP, it is unclear how many people were inside the five-story building, built in the 1980s, at the time of the incident.
In December 2025, two buildings collapsed in Fez, a tragedy that claimed 22 lives. Last May, nine people died there when a residential building collapsed. Reuters also recalls the incident from 2010, when 41 people died when a minaret collapsed in the city of Meknes. A Moroccan official said last year that around 38,800 buildings across the country are at risk of collapse.
