3 firefighters died, while two others were injured while trying to contain the fire that broke out in the Kediyat Tayfur area, near a hill overlooking the Rincon port, according to Hespress sources.
The gusts of wind contributed to the spread of the fire in the area, located between Cabo Negro and the strait.
The two wounded individuals received first aid at Mohammed VI Hospital in Rincon, before being taken to a private clinic in Tangier.
Local authorities in Mdi’q arrested 4 people suspected of setting fire to the forest.
According to Hespress sources, the four detainees in their 30s were placed in custody, pending investigation in order to determine all the circumstances and motives of the environmental crime.
The firefighting effort was bolstered by two Canadair aircraft, which stopped carrying operating by dark.
The flames continue to swallow vast areas of the city’s forests and the strait, amid rising thick smoke that appears to pedestrians and locals from the city center of neighboring Martil and M’diq.
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