The explosive was triggered by remote control, thus negating the assumption of a suicide attack
AGENCIES / Marrakech-PARIS
The Moroccan government holds open "all lines of research "on the attack in Marrakesh," including Al Qaeda, "although so far declined to blame any terrorist attack on the cafeteria Argana occurred last Thursday in the Medina of the city and killed 15 people and wounding of 20 others treated differently.
Alawite Interior Minister, Taieb Cherqaoui announced that the preliminary investigation of the bloody coup revealed that the bomb was remote-controlled and therefore it was not a suicide, as previously thought, according to statements from some witnesses who pointed to a suicide bomber who had entered the kitchen of the establishment of a youth who left a backpack on the premises. "This is not a suicide (...) and it appears that the explosive device was remotely activated. The investigation is ongoing, "he said. According to the politician, the explosive was made of ammonium nitrate and TATP explosives and nails had been added to act as shrapnel. Cherqaoui, stressing that "it is well known who used this modus operandi, urged Moroccans to be vigilant, to close ranks and prioritize the best interests of the State. Balance
provisional. The official version about the fatalities included two Moroccans, two French, two Canadians and Dutch, who were identified yesterday, according to the Ministry of Interior.
Through a statement, the government, which corrected the total number of killed and said the dead were 15 and not 16 as had been said in the latest news. He also noted that the forensic work continues the identification of the bodies, in addition to the collaboration of English experts.
also speculates on the nationality of two of the dead, a pregnant Israeli woman in her last months of pregnancy and her Jewish husband, who were visiting. Some local media identified them as Jews Weizmann Michal Zikri and Zikri Masud, a couple who lived in China and Morocco were traveling to visit her father to be pregnant with her second child.
addition, the first foreign government source position was the French interior minister, Claude Guéant, who announced that there are at least six dead and seven wounded Gallic nationality. "At this point, data at our disposal show, and I say limited, that would have killed six French and eight affected more, "he said.
The secretary general of the Health portfolio, Makaui Rahal, said during a visit to Ibn Tufail hospital of Marrakech, where they were admitted by the victims, eight French nationals, two Moroccans and a Dutch citizen are being taken care of their injuries. Makaui added that evolve favorably and that the rest of the affected are in the military hospital of this city and in private clinics. In addition, doctors have found "strange metal objects" in the bodies of three of the disabled, according to the emergency department director, Hisham Najmi, who explained that five members of a French family, two children, and they are all safe, except the father of this group, whose situation is very serious.
continues the shock. A cook and one of the waiters at the café-restaurant Argana, scene of the attack, reported that the explosion was "terrible" and shook the building premises. Lachab Abdelkader, 23, who yesterday visited a colleague who is admitted to the hospital, he confessed that after the crash, saw human remains still in flames when he went to the terrace. "The work in the morning had been normal. We were preparing the meal, we heard a very loud explosion, and entered a stream of air for 10 seconds, "he said. "We thought it was a gas cylinder. I panicked and fled to the upper floor, and there on the terrace I found human remains on fire, and four people were still moving, "she explained. Moulay Driss
Steward, 28, said a friend from work called Yasin died in the explosion, and he still has hearing problems after the attack. A taxi driver who was parked a few meters from Argana at the time of the blast and who preferred anonymity, said that in a initially thought they were the wheels of his car, he felt "very scared" and that the noise was "huge."
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