The Moroccan gendarmerie arrested a first suspect on Tuesday, for the forest fires that ravaged the province of Larache, North of Morocco.
Larache authorities have begun to investigate the circumstances of the outbreak of several forest fires in the villages of the province.
The initial investigations led to a first arrest on Tuesday, reports the newspaper Al Ahdath Al Maghrbia in its July 28 edition.
It is a man, in his forties, from Beni Jarfat, who would be involved in the fire that affected the forest in the same village.
Questioned by authorities, the defendant quickly admitted that he was doing work on the fence of his house and that he deliberately set fire to the remains of building materials he wanted to dispose of.
The fire had spread quickly, the man explained that he could not do anything about it, underlines the same source.
The climatic conditions favorable to the spread of the fire, with the wind, in particular, caused the fire to quickly grow, which led to devastating material and human losses.
Two women died of “asphyxiation” after the start of several forest fires on Monday evening in the province of Larache, in northern Morocco.
These deaths bring the total death toll to four, the total number of deaths due to the fires in the north of the kingdom since mid-July.
The last two victims “did not want to respond to calls from local authorities to evacuate the homes threatened by the fires,” the provincial authorities of Larache told AFP.
The day before, a volunteer had perished in the province of Taounate (north) while fighting the flames alongside the intervention teams mobilized to extinguish a fire that ravaged at least 33 hectares of wooded land, mainly planted with pines.
The last victim to date had died in the province of Larache.
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