Morocco .. One dead and one injured in a forest fire
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One person was killed and another injured in a fire in the province of Taounate in northern Morocco, where flashpoints of fire erupted again, days after the fires were contained, according to local authorities.
The two victims were volunteers who were participating in putting out a fire in a forest in the region near Fez and Meknes, local sources told AFP.
The wounded man was taken to the hospital, and he is not in a critical condition.
On Monday night, the firefighting forces sought to control the fire after ensuring the safety of a number of villagers, according to the local authorities.
And the fire in the region destroyed about 33 hectares of forested areas.
Fires have flared up again, to varying degrees, in several spots during the past hours in northern Morocco, especially in the Larache region to the south of Tangier, which was recently swept by violent forest fires that killed one person.
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