Four sentenced over Casablanca deaths

Updated: 06:24, Tuesday, 19 August 2003

A Moroccan court has sentenced four men to death in connection with suicide bombings in Casablanca three months ago.

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A Moroccan court has sentenced four men to death in connection with suicide bombings in Casablanca three months ago.

The judges found the four guilty of premeditated murder in the five simultaneous bombings which took place on 16 May 2003. 45 people were killed in the attacks, including 12 suicide bombers.

The four were among 87 defendants the public prosecutor at the trial accused of belonging to an Islamist movement which advocates violence against US interests and Jews in Morocco.

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