While the summer period is known to be the time of year when there is an increase in the number of drownings in Morocco, it should also be noted that, due to the lack of neighborhood swimming pools, many children drown in rivers.
A Moroccan woman and her child perished in the sinking of their boat off the coast of Libya on Tuesday, August 27, 2019. A total of five migrants died and twenty others are still missing, according to the Libyan navy.
The beach of Tres Piedras, in Fnideq, witnessed a scene that could have turned tragic. Went swimming alone, a young Moroccan girl was swept away by violent waves. She will only be saved thanks to the intervention of a young swimmer.
Staying in a hotel near Jemaa el-Fna square in Marrakech, a young Moroccan living abroad drowned in the hotel’s swimming pool. He eventually died at the hospital’s emergency room.
From May 1 to July 31, 2019, the General Directorate of Civil Protection recorded 8,159 cases of drowning on all the beaches of Morocco, for 53 deaths. During this time, rescue operations saved 8,099 people, while 7 others are still missing.
A humane but, above all, courageous gesture cost the life of a Senegalese national who tried to save a dog from drowning. The latter, trapped in a large pond, was fighting to escape certain death.
The Civil Guard of Ceuta recovered, on Friday, August 2, 2019, a Moroccan in the waters near the cliffs of the southern coast of the autonomous city. The autopsy reveals that the body of this man, in an advanced state of decomposition, has been at sea for a week.
On August 1, 2009, Anissa drowned during a sports activity at a summer camp. She was 11 years old, and her parents still can’t get over it, ten years later.
Four Moroccan fishermen were rescued on Tuesday, July 30, 2019, by the Spanish National Police, near Ceuta, after their boat sank due to bad weather conditions. While the two survived, their boat could not be recovered.
An unfortunate event occurred on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 in the province of Taza. Three young girls from the same family died by drowning.
The sea washed up, on Monday, July 22, 2019, in Martil, in northern Morocco, the body of a drowned teenager who had gone missing on Saturday, July 20.
The sea washed up a body on the beach of Sidi Moussa, in the Commune of Aglou, in the province of Tiznit. This corpse, probably that of a migrant, was taken to the morgue for the needs of the investigation.