Villagers Flee As Firefighters Battle Blazes In Morocco
July 15, 2022
4:19 am
Dozens of Moroccan firefighters in collaboration with soldiers battled Thursday to put out at least four infernos ripping through forests in the north of the kingdom, officials have confirmed.
According to officials, several villages had to be evacuated ahead of the flames as military water-bomber planes dropped loads in a bid to extinguish the blaze.
In soaring temperatures, and shocked by how fast the leaping flames were spreading, villagers fled their homes.
Some, where they could, herded their crucial cattle and horses upon which their livelihoods depend ahead of them.
A village in the Ksar El Kebir region of the …
