Eight French nationals and four Moroccans were killed when a tourist coach was involved in a head-on collision with an articulated truck, the Moroccan MAP news agency reported today.
Twenty-four people were injured in the accident, which occurred yesteday afternoon near the village of Benguerir in western Morocco on the main road between Casablanca and Marrakesh, the agency said.
The injured were taken to the military hospital in Marrakesh.
King Mohammed sent his condolence to the victims' families, adding that he would pay hospital expenses for the injured, the costs of returning "the remains of the dead of foreign origin" and burial costs of the Moroccan victims.