Sources reported that the chances of finding the players of the Moroccan Tangier Union Football Club who disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea have become almost non-existent, two days after they disappeared during a recreational trip.
The Royal Moroccan Navy teams stopped their search operations after any possibility of finding the players declined significantly.
Possibility indicates that sea currents swept the bodies towards the Spanish coast, which prompted the Moroccan authorities to inform their Spanish counterparts of bilateral cooperation in this regard.
Five players from the Moroccan club Ittihad Tangier entered the sea last Saturday on a recreational boat from the tourist beach of Restinka.
Royal Navy teams were able to rescue two players after facing great difficulties amid choppy waves, while the third player was lost on a speedboat.
For 24 hours, the Royal Moroccan Navy conducted naval patrols searching for the missing players alive, or at least to recover their bodies. However, the spread of huge orcas in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea complicates the task of search operations.
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