Rescue workers and residents search for survivors amid the wreckage of two collapsed buildings in Fez, Morocco, on Tuesday, December 9, 2025. AHMED ALAOUI MRANI / AP
Two four-story buildings collapsed in the Moroccan city of Fes, killing at least 19 people, according to a provisional toll reported by the country's official news agency on Wednesday, December 10. "Sixteen other people were wounded, with varying degrees of severity," the MAP news agency reported, adding that search operations were still ongoing to "save other people who may be buried under the rubble." Local authorities have indicated that the death toll could rise in the coming hours.
The two adjacent structures, which housed eight families, collapsed overnight in the major northern city's Al-Moustakbal neighbourhood, in the Al-Massira area, according to MAP. The agency reported that the injured were taken to Fes's University Hospital Centre.
Images from the pre-dawn scene showed first responders carrying a corpse in a grey body bag to waiting emergency vehicles, as residents gathered to watch the rescue efforts. Other workers with jackhammers and pickaxes tried to dig through the rubble, at times with the help of mechanical excavators.
