Morocco GenZ 212 demonstrations: Police say two shot dead in 'self-defence'

Police say they shot dead two people who were part of a crowd trying to storm a police station.

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These are the first deaths reported since huge youth-led protests broke out across Morocco on Saturday as anger grew over the government's decision to build football stadiums for the 2030 Fifa World Cup rather than improving public services and tackling the economic crisis.

"Stadiums are here, but where are the hospitals?" is a popular chant among the Gen Z protesters.

One demonstrator told BBC Newsday that the hospital in his city, Oujda, on the border with Algeria, was like a "jail".

It was dirty, and patients had to bribe security officers and nurses to see a doctor, said the protester, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he feared reprisals.