News has just reached us of a family tragedy that took place at the Oued Al-Makhazin dam (pictured left) near Tangier. The accident happened on Monday when five people belonging to the same family drowned in the dam.The accident occurred when an 11-year-old girl, who was swimming in a shallow area of the dam, sank into a 25m-deep crevasse, dragging her 12 year-old sister down with her.
The older brother, 37, and his wife, rushed to the rescue of the two girls but they got sucked inside as well. Another sibling, an 18-year-old girl, suffered the same fate.
On Monday, civil protection teams managed to recover two bodies from the bottom of the crevasse, while a third body emerged later. Two other bodies were recovered on Tuesday morning by the civil protection frogmen.
The bodies were carried to the morgue of the northern city of Ouazzane.
The View from Fez extends its sympathy to the relatives of the victims.
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