RABAT – Foreigners stranded in locked-down Morocco are getting on evacuation flights Friday as governments try to repatriate their citizens after days of travel frustration.
Visitors from around the world have found themselves stuck in Morocco since the North African country suspended all international passenger flights and passenger ships to and from its territory beginning Sunday.
The U.S. government announced special chartered flights for U.S. citizens leaving Friday, after growing complaints from several hundred American students and tourists scattered in cities around Morocco.
Some have been sleeping on floors in the Marrakech airport, or holed up in one of the last hotels open in Rabat. Some say they are running out of blood pressure