Citation
(2005), "Miscellaneous", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 14 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2005.07314eac.006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2005, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Miscellaneous
6 November 2004Collapse of mosque, Fez, Morocco
A mosque has collapsed in north-eastern Morocco, killing ten people. Another seven people were injured when the mosque in Fez, about 200 km east of Rabat, collapsed during one of the five daily Muslim prayers. The Interior Ministry said the Ain Al-Khail mosque caved in after an individual home located above the mosque collapsed.
3 December 2004Landslide, Zuojiaying, Guizhou Province, China
A landslide has engulfed a village in southern China, leaving 65 people missing, state media reported. The landslide struck Zuojiaying, in mountainous Guizhou province, at about 03:00, local time (19:00, UTC, 2 December), Xinhua said. About 25 homes were hit as residents slept. More than 30 people escaped and the search for missing villagers is under way, the news agency said. One official said that experts and armed police had arrived at the scene to oversee the rescue effort. He ruled out the weather as a cause of the accident, saying it had been fine at the time when the collapse happened. The cause is to be investigated. One official said that the cause seemed to be natural. “There are a lot of steep hillsides,” he said.