{"id":39940,"date":"2019-07-01T04:23:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T04:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39940"},"modified":"2019-07-01T04:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T04:23:23","slug":"many-injured-in-morocco-migrant-camp-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=39940","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Many injured\u2019 in Morocco migrant camp blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1518541\/middle-east\" readability=\"80\">\n<p>\nRABAT:\u00a0A blaze ripped through a migrant camp in the Moroccan city of Casablanca on Sunday leaving \u201cmany injured,\u201d authorities and camp residents said.<\/p>\n<p>\nIllegal but tolerated by authorities, the Oulad Ziane camp near the coastal city\u2019s main bus station has for years been home to hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Largest camp\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\nIt is the largest and one of the last informal camps left in the kingdom, following a push by authorities to dismantle others.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe camp burned down, and many injured were hospitalized,\u201d said Camara Lassine, a community leader in the camp.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThere was a fight between a hundred migrants over a stolen phone, and one of them started the fire and called the police,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cWe don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll be allowed to return.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAuthorities said the fire broke out amid \u201cplastic tents and debris\u201d but was later brought under control without causing any deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\nBlighted by a poor hygiene and violence, Oulad Ziane camp was hit by four fires last year.<\/p>\n<p>\nA steady flow of sub-Saharan migrants enter Morocco each year aiming to reach Europe by sea or via the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla at the kingdom\u2019s northern tip.<\/p>\n<p>\nBut many eventually settle in Morocco, which has conducted two campaigns since 2014 granting residency to 50,000 illegal immigrants, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\nMost migrants at the camp hail from the West African countries of Guinea, Burkina Faso, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Mali, and Niger.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nSince 2014, Morocco has regularized thousands of undocumented migrants residing in the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RABAT:\u00a0A blaze ripped through a migrant camp in the Moroccan city of Casablanca on Sunday leaving \u201cmany injured,\u201d authorities and camp residents said. Illegal but tolerated by authorities, the Oulad Ziane camp near the coastal city\u2019s main bus station has for years been home to hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa. Largest camp\u00a0 It is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":39941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}