A WORCESTERSHIRE couple have died while holidaying in Morocco with their children.

Roger and Mathilde Lamb, of Pensham, near Pershore, died at the weekend although the authorities have not released any details about what happened.

They were holidaying with their four sons in the port city of Essaouira on the Atlantic Coast at the time.

Local media reported Mrs Lamb, aged 44 – known as Tilly – had fallen from the third floor of a rented house in the city centre overnight on Wednesday, August 17.

She was taken to hospital in intensive care at the Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah Essaouira provincial hospital, and it was reported the police were investigating the circumstances.

Mr Lamb, aged 47, fell from the second storey of a city centre hotel suffering multiple injuries.

He was taken in a very serious condition to the provincial hospital and later transferred to the University Hospital Ibn Tofail in Marrakech, more than 250 miles away, on Sunday night but later died.

It is understood the children – aged between eight and 16 – have left Morocco with a family member and are being looked after by an aunt, not in Worcestershire.

The deaths have left neighbours in the old village of Pensham shocked and upset, with one resident saying what had happened was “awful”.

They lived in an £850,000 house with its own annexe overlooking pasture and farmland.

Pershore Mayor John Grantham said: “Everybody in Pensham is in shock.”

Mrs Lamb’s elderly mother lives in nearby Great Comberton, where the rector Reverend Terry Henderson asked parishioners to pray for the family during a service on Sunday at St Michael’s Church in Great Comberton.

Mr Henderson said the couple were both heavily involved in village life and the local primary school.

“Everybody knew them and hence everybody is very sad and very shocked,” he said.

“One of her sisters is looking after the four children. I’ve just come back from being with her mother.”

A West Mercia Police spokesman said: “West Mercia Police were made aware of the incident this week.

“Officers from south Worcestershire made some initial enquiries but the matter is now with the coroner for Wiltshire and the Foreign Commonwealth Office.”

A Foreign Office spokeswoman confirmed the deaths saying it was giving “consular assistance at this very difficult time”.