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A police officer and workers from a train stand near a derailed train on Tuesday near Sidi Bouknadel, Morocco.
(AP Photo / Abdeljalil Bounhar)
At least seven people have died and nearly 80 have been injured after a shuttle train connecting the Moroccan capital to a city further north of the Atlantic coast derailed Tuesday, authorities said at the scene. 39; accident.
The train derailed roughly halfway between Rabat and the town of Kenitra, near the town of Sale. Lost doors and seats were torn from the wreckage, while passengers' belongings and broken window panes littered the scene of the accident.
Rescuers transported people to hospitals in Rabat, Sale and Kenitra, while relief teams were looking for more victims with the help of dogs without cadavers. Military personnel were monitoring the site as railway workers and authorities began investigating why the train had jumped.
The inhabitants of the city were the first to go to the site of the city of Sidi Bouknadel, helping wounded or trapped survivors out of cars of mutilated trains and covering the bodies of the dead. They reported that the accident occurred around 9:30.
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"We heard a huge explosion. The earth trembled and the sound was unbearable, "told the Associated Press Mourad El Kbiri, who owns a cafe near the place where the train derailed. "I rushed to see what happened. It was horrible. Disfigured bodies everywhere, blood and body parts.
The Blood Vaccination Center declared the state of emergency and sent blood collection vehicles to Rabat, Kenitra, Sale and Sidi Bouknadel to receive donors.
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ONCF national railway company chief executive Mohamed Rabie Khlie and Morocco's interior and transport ministers briefly visited the scene of the accident, but declined to comment.
Moroccan King Mohammed VI has offered to pay the burial costs himself, the official MAP news agency reported.
