Nineteen people died and 16 were injured early today when two adjacent four-story residential buildings collapsed in Fez, Morocco, with the Moroccan official news agency MAP reporting the provisional toll.The structures, which housed eight families in the Al-Mustaqbal neighborhood, had previously shown signs of cracking and may have been self-constructed, leading to a judicial investigation into their adherence to urban planning laws.Search and rescue operations are ongoing, with local authorities and
Civil Protection responding, as this tragedy highlights broader concerns amid ongoing protests against poor living conditions in
Morocco.