{"id":58813,"date":"2026-05-21T13:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=58813"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:45:24","slug":"building-collapse-kills-11-people-in-moroccos-fez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/?p=58813","title":{"rendered":"Building Collapse Kills 11 People in Morocco&#8217;s Fez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven people were killed and six others injured when a four-storey building collapsed overnight in the Moroccan city of Fez, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) east of Rabat, state-owned broadcaster 2M said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said a search for others who might still be buried was ongoing. Media showed footage of rescuers and residents digging through the rubble, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation has been launched into the incident, and residents of adjacent buildings were asked to evacuate as a precaution against potential further collapses, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Fez, a former capital dating back to the eighth century and the country&#8217;s third-most-populous city, has seen similar incidents in recent months, including one in December when two buildings collapsed, killing at least 22 people.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the collapse of a minaret in the historic northern city of Meknes killed 41 people.<\/p>\n<p>Adib Ben Ibrahim, housing secretary of state, said last year that approximately 38,800 buildings across the country had been classified as being at risk of collapse. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.aawsat.com\/node\/5275747\">Original Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven people were killed and six others injured when a four-storey building collapsed overnight in the Moroccan city of Fez, about 200 kilometres (124 miles) east of Rabat, state-owned broadcaster 2M said on Thursday. Authorities said a search for others who might still be buried was ongoing. Media showed footage of rescuers and residents digging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58815,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-05-21T15:45:27Z","apple_news_api_id":"186ab7e8-bca4-449f-b833-699ed93c7079","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-05-21T15:45:27Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGGq36LykRJ-4M2me2TxweQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arab-world"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58814,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58813\/revisions\/58814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/applenews.cloud.aawsat.london\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}