Fifteen people, including eight young girls, have died of asphyxiation in Morocco after an accidental propane gas leak, the official MAP news agency said today.
The accident occurred last night at an education centre in the district of Ain Chock, in the Moroccan economic capital of Casablanca, MAP said.
The girls were all younger than 10; the other victims, all women, were aged between 35 and 40, it reported.