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Bombers strike in Casablanca in Morocco
Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in Casablanca close to the city's US consulate and American cultural centre, officials have said.
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Bombers strike in Casablanca in Morocco
Bombers strike in Casablanca in Morocco
Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in Casablanca close to the city's US consulate and American cultural centre, officials have said.
Police later arrested three men, including one reportedly wearing an explosive belt, in connection with Saturday's blasts.
"Only the two bombers were killed," police sources told the Reuters news agency.
Saturday's bombings came after three men detonated explosive belts they were wearing in Morocco's largest city on Tuesday.
Moroccan security forces said Saturday's blasts happened shortly after two men approached a policeman at a checkpoint about 100 metres from the Dar America cultural centre.
One asked for access to the building, but when questioned, he and the other bomber set off their explosives, security officials said.
Soon afterwards police arrested three other men, one of whom was reportedly in possession of an explosive belt.
"He threw down his explosives belt and ran away. Police chased him and caught him," said the owner of a coffee shop in the neighbourhood who declined to be identified.
US targets
"There is no doubt they aimed at the US targets. They made that statement with their own bodies," a senior police source told Reuters.
Other witnesses said that one man approached the US consulate and the other the cultural centre before blowing themselves up one minute apart.
Three suicide bombers blew themselves up in Casablanca on Tuesday and police shot and killed a fourth man who appeared to be preparing to detonate explosives, authorities said.
Police had been pursuing the men in connection with an explosion in an internet cafe in the city on March 11.
An internet statement purportedly from Alk-ae-da = (Al Qaeda) claimed responsibility for the bombings but the government in Rabat insists that the bombers were "home-grown" with no links to international groups.
On Wednesday, Moroccan police said they were hunting for about 10 more possible suicide bombers.