Seventeen people were killed Sunday in a bus overturn and 36 others injured in northern Morocco, a health ministry official told AFP.
The incident occurred after the bus carrying passengers overturned Sunday in a village near the city of Taza, according to local authorities, which initially indicated that eight people were killed.
He also announced the opening of a search by the security authorities to determine the circumstances and circumstances of the incident.
Road accidents kill about 3,500 people every year in the kingdom of 35 million.
The authorities have developed a strategy to address this problem and tighten surveillance, especially after a bus accident between Marrakech and Ouarzazate that killed 42 people in September 2012.