28 Garment Workers Killed in Flooded Factory in Morocco

28 Garment Workers Killed in Flooded Factory in Morocco
Employees work at a textile factory in Tangiers, Morocco in a file photo. Abdelhak Senna/AFP via Getty Images
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RABAT, Morocco—Heavy rains flooded an illegal garment factory in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier, killing at least 28 workers Monday, state television quoted a medical official as saying.

That raised the death toll from 24, reported earlier by the Moroccan news agency MAP.