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Summary The bombing in a Morocco tourist cafe kills 15 people, 10 of them foreigners, leaving many injured.
The blast ripped through a cafe overlooking Marrakeshs Jamaa el-Fnaa square, a spot often packed with foreign tourists.The Moroccan interior minister said that the bombing at Morocco’s busiest tourist destination was a terrorist act.Interior Minister Taieb Cherkaoui said 15 people were killed and 23 wounded in the deadliest attack Morocco has seen since 12 suicide bombers killed 33 members of the public in coordinated strikes on the business hub Casablanca eight years ago.Preliminary investigation suggests that this was a terrorist act caused by an explosive device, the official MAP news agency quoted Cherkaoui as saying.Security experts said the attack bore all the hallmarks of a plot by militants.
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