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Casablanca suicide bomb blasts kill 41, injure 100

AFp, Casablanca
A series of suicide bomb attacks rocked the Moroccan city of Casablanca overnight, killing 41 people and injuring about 100 more at sites frequented by foreigners, leaving a trail of bloody carnage.
The blasts hit the Belgian consulate, a Jewish centre and cemetery, an international hotel and a bustling Spanish restaurant in the economic capital of the north African country.
The attacks late Friday night follow a triple suicide bombing on Monday in Saudi Arabia blamed on al-Qaeda that killed 34 people, amid a host of terror alerts for the
Middle East, east Africa and Southeast Asia.
"These attacks bear the hallmarks of international terrorism," Interior Minister Mostafa Sahel said.
Officials said the victims were mainly Moroccans. Sahel said three Moroccan suspects had been arrested, including one would-be suicide bomber injured in the blasts.
No group immediately claimed responsibility, although Sahel said there were similarities linking the Casablanca explosions with Monday's suicide attacks in the Saudi capital.
The identities of the dead were not yet known, although the official
MAP news agency said they included a hotel doorman and two police officers who were posted outside the Belgian consulate.
"Fifteen people hurt during attacks Friday night have died from their injuries, bringing the death toll to 39," the Casablanca prefecture said.
Earlier, officials had put the number of dead at 24, including 10 suicide bombers, with more than 60 injured.
The prefecture said the revised toll was "nearly definitive", since most of the injured had already left hospital after receiving treatment.
The deadliest of the blasts appeared to be at the Casa Espana, a Spanish cultural centre and restaurant where a crowd of people were having dinner.
Around 20 people are believed to have been killed in either one or two bomb blasts at the restaurant, although little debris was visible from outside.
The main explosion was inside the cultural centre, where some 100 people had been having dinner, according to an official at the centre.
Officials said three of the bombs were in cars, which exploded outside the Belgian consulate, at the Farah hotel -- better known by its former name, the Safir -- and at a Jewish cultural centre.
Witnesses of the attack on the Jewish centre told AFP that the bodies of two suicide bombers were pulled out of the rubble.
They said the toll would have been much higher had the centre not been hit on Friday night, after the start of the Jewish Sabbath.
In Brussels, a Belgian foreign ministry spokesman said the bomb which went off near his country's consulate may not have been aimed at the mission.
He added that a US diplomat lived in a house close by the blast site, and that a restaurant nearby was apparently Jewish-owned.
"The terrorists' goal was to disrupt Morocco's democratic process and political pluralism," Sahel said. "Morocco will not be intimidated by those who choose
to kill innocent people."
Monday's Saudi bombings were widely blamed on the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda, although no group has claimed responsibility.
Police said ambulances were called in from surrounding areas to aid the injured in the Atlantic coast city, which was gripped by panic after the blasts.
At the local Averroes hospital, an official read out the names of 32 people who had been taken there with injuries. Most of the names were Moroccan.
The hospital was packed with anxious city residents seeking news of their loved ones.
Many members of radical Islamist groups have been arrested in Morocco in recent months.
In February al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden cited Morocco among a list of "apostate" Arab nations in a cassette message distributed to the media.
Morocco is a strong US ally, but opposed the US-led war on Iraq.
Also in February, three Saudi nationals accused of being part of an al-Qaeda cell were sentenced to 10 years in prison for plotting attacks against Western targets in Morocco and the Strait of Gibraltar last year.
Six Moroccan accomplices received jail terms of up to a year.
The United States, Australia and Britain -- which have stepped up their intelligence cooperation since the September 11, 2001
attacks in New York and
Washington -- released a wave of terrorism warnings to their citizens in recent days.
Britain this week suspended all flights to and from Kenya because of an "imminent" terrorist threat.