Blasts hit Casablanca
Story from BBC NEWS: 5-15-2003

A number of people are reported to have been killed and injured in a
series of car bomb attacks in the centre of Morocco's largest city
Casablanca.

At least four explosions occurred near a number of Western targets,
including a Jewish club and a hotel, according to Moroccan authorities -
all within half an hour.

Local journalist Aboubakr Jammai told the BBC that witnesses had spoken
of "many dead" as well as numerous injuries.

Mr Jammai said he knew of four attacks that had taken place near an
Hispanic centre, a hotel, a synagogue and a Jewish cemetery, although he
said there were reports that there had been as many as six explosions.

He said that the attack on the Hotel Safir in the old part of the city
had been a suicide attack and that at least eight people had been killed
in that incident alone.

Mr Jammai added that a fellow journalist at Casablanca's main hospital
had reported that the facility had been inundated by injured people,
many of whom had been severely burned.

The streets of Casablanca are reported to be largely empty as frightened
residents raced home to take shelter.

Casablanca, Morocco's economic capital, is about 100 kilometres (60
miles) south west of Rabat on the Atlantic coast.

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