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One person died in the violent fires that ravaged remote wooded areas of northern Morocco since Wednesday, leading to the evacuation of a thousand families, authorities told AFP on Friday.
“The body of a person with multiple burns was found” in one of the fires in the Larache region, according to a press release from the authorities.
At least 1600 hectares of forest massifs have been destroyed in the provinces of Larache, Ouezzane, Tetouan and Taza, in the north of the country, according to a provisional assessment.
The country, which has had intense droughts, has recently been hit by soaring temperatures.
“It is the heat that causes this kind of fire. It was yesterday at dawn that the fire reached our village,” the AFP news agency quoted Ahmed Mezouar, a resident of Larache, as saying.
