Nine people convicted for links to suicide bombings in Casablanca have escaped from a Moroccan prison, officials say.

Prison authorities at Kenitra, 40km (25 miles) north of the capital, Rabat, noticed the escape on Monday morning, the Justice Ministry told state media.

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The 2003 attacks left 45 people dead, including 12 bombers, and many injured.

All measures were being taken to find the fugitives, the Justice Ministry said in a statement on state news agency MAP.

Officials had been sent to the prison to investigate how the convicts had broken out, it said.

(BBC)

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