31 Moroccan Young Athletes killed as tour bus burst into flames following collision

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A bus carrying Young Moroccan Athletes between the age of 14 - 15 years who where returning from a sports competition has been gutted by fire after their bus had a head collision with a petrol tanker which left about 31 of the children dead and about 9 others seriously injured

The tour bus, carrying the young athletes and their coaches, crashed into the truck, which may have been carrying petrol, early this morning near the southern Moroccan city of Tan-Tan.

Most victims were killed by a fire that broke out on the bus straight after the crash.

The bus was transporting the young athletes and their coaches from a competition in Bouznika, a beach resort in the north from the capital Rabat.

Moroccan state news said the accident occurred near the district of Chbika, exactly 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) south west of Rabat.

The accident in southern Morocco is the worst in the North African kingdom since September 2012 when a bus plunged into a ravine, killing 42 people

[Culled From UK Daily Mail]