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Morocco bus crash leaves dozens dead

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Bus is reported to have plunged down ravine between Marrakech and Ouarzazate in early hours

Dozens of people are reported to have died after a bus drove off a road in central Morocco and plunged down a 150-metre (500ft) ravine.

The official news agency MAP said 42 people were killed when the bus overturned between the desert cities of Marrakech and Ouarzazate. Another 24 people were injured, four of them seriously, in the accident in the early hours of Tuesday.

Most of the injured were taken to emergency rooms in Marrakech.

The bus regularly makes the journey between the two cities.

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