Heba Press _ Fez office
Following the tragic accident that occurred at the Qadadsha roundabout in the commune of Maknas in the province of Taounate, which resulted in the death of three people from asphyxiation inside an unauthorized well.
The victims were two brothers and an imam from the mosque, whose bodies were found after 8 hours of effort by civil prevention teams.
According to a well-informed source, the farmer who owned the well was arrested and put on trial for “negligent manslaughter, lack of foresight and digging a well without a permit.”
The public prosecutor decided to place the person in detention in Ain Aisha prison while awaiting his trial.
Details of the incident date back to attempts to dig the well by one of the victims, accompanied by another person who miraculously survived. After the victim suffocated in the well, his brother and the mosque’s imam rushed to try to save him, but they were all killed.
The bodies of the victims were transferred to Al-Ghassani hospital in Fez for an autopsy to determine the causes of death, which shook public opinion in the province and the region.
