Fires ravaging remote mountain forests in the northern region of the Kingdom have killed at least one person, authorities said Friday. The corpse was found amid one of the blazes in the Larache region. In the north of Morocco, fires which are fanned by strong winds have forced more than 1,000 families to evacuate. Hundreds of personnel from the civil protection service and water and forest department, as well as soldiers, police and volunteers were deployed. The North African nation, which is struggling under intense droughts, has been hit by soaring temperatures approaching 45 degrees Celsius in recent days.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 16, 2022 16:28 UTC