A Moroccan official says at least six people have been killed and dozens are injured in a passenger train derailment.
Abdellatif Soudou, deputy mayor of the city of Sale, said rescue workers are searching for passengers who may still be trapped in the wreckage.
The train jumped the tracks in Sidi Bouknadel, a town near Sale in the northwestern part of the country.
The official Moroccan news agency says the train was a shuttle linking the capital, Rabat, to the town of Kenitra, further north on the coast.
MAP says the Moroccan king, Mohammed VI, has offered to pay the funeral costs for victims' families out of his own pocket.
The news agency reported that the king also instructed that the injured be treated in a military hospital in Rabat.
Morocco's railways company did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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