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AT LEAST 15 people, mainly women and elderly people, have died in a stampede for food in a town in Morocco.
Local media has reported the death toll is expected to rise, following the crush in the rural town of Sidi Boulaalam in Essaouira province, about 90 miles west of Marrakesh.
Most of the dead were women or elderly people, reports said, blaming the the crush on 'disorganisation'.
Most of the victims died from suffocation, Telquel reported.
A number of other people are believed to have been injured, some critical, as residents clambered for food supplies being handed out by a an unknown group.
Images on social media showed people laying injured on the ground.