By Xinhua,
Rabat : Death toll in a fire at a mattress factory in Morocco’s biggest city Casablanca on Saturday morning now rose to 55, the official news agency MAP reported.
A communique issued by local authorities confirmed the rising death toll from an original figure of 25, according to MAP.
Earlier, MAP reported that some 25 people were killed and eight others seriously wounded, including a policeman, when a fire broke out Saturday in a mattress factory in Casablanca.
The blaze broke out in the morning at 10 a.m. (1000 GMT) in the first floor of the Rosamor Ameublements factory in the Hay Hassani neighborhood of the north African country’ economic capital, it added.
About 60 of the 150 workers, recruited in the factory, were on site when the fire erupted.
Some 100 fire fighters were deployed to control the blaze, and an inquiry was launched to find out its causes, according to the report.