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6 People Killed in Morocco Train Derailment

Security personnel stand at the site of a train derailment at Sidi Bouknadel near the Moroccan capital Rabat, Oct. 16, 2018.
Security personnel stand at the site of a train derailment at Sidi Bouknadel near the Moroccan capital Rabat, Oct. 16, 2018.

Six people were killed and about 80 injured when a train derailed near the Moroccan capital Rabat on Tuesday, officials said.

The train derailed near Sidi Bouknadel, a town near Rabat, on the busy coastal line connecting the capital to the commercial hub of Casablanca.

The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.

A Reuters reporter at the site saw a train derailed near some industrial and residential buildings.

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