This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Presse – Tangier
A huge fire broke out this Tuesday, November 19 in the evening, in an industrial unit specializing in the textile industry, located in the territorial jurisdiction of the eighteenth district of the Majd El Awaama industrial zone, affiliated with the Beni Makada region. in Tangier.
The fire caused enormous material losses, with no human losses recorded.
Accident details: Electrical short circuit due to rain
According to preliminary data, it is estimated that the first spark of the fire occurred due to an electrical short circuit resulting from the heavy rains that the city witnessed this evening, pending confirmation of this hypothesis by the investigations which will be carried out by the competent authorities.
Civil protection teams intervened quickly, with the help of local authorities and their agents, as well as national security services, to control the fire and prevent its spread to neighboring factories in the industrial zone.
The process of extinguishing the fire continues until Wednesday at 1 a.m.
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