At least 22 people died and 16 were injured when two adjacent four-story residential buildings collapsed in Fez, Morocco, leading to ongoing search and rescue efforts by emergency services.The structures, which housed eight families, had shown signs of cracking and instability, prompting a judicial investigation into their adherence to urban planning laws and concerns about self-construction.This tragedy highlights systemic issues of housing insecurity and socioeconomic inequality in Morocco, following previous building disasters and recent protests in Fez over poor living conditions.