Nine men serving sentences for the fatal Casablanca bombings in 2003 have escaped from a prison in Morocco.
Authorities at Kenitra Prison, north of Rabat, have said that all measures have been taken to find the escaped prisoners and establish who was responsible.
The 16 May 2003 suicide bombings in Casablanca were the deadliest ever in Morocco, killing 45 people including 12 suicide bombers and wounding scores of others.
The prisoners tunnelled their way out, according to a source in the ministry of the interior.
All nine men came from Casablanca and seven of them were sentenced to life imprisonment, while two were given 20 years.
They apparently left a letter behind them denouncing the injustice, of which they said they were victims, and explaining that having resorted in vain to all legal measures, they were left with only one option.
