4 terror suspects killed in raid
Acting on a tip, Moroccan police surrounded a building in Casablanca where four terrorism suspects were holed up, prompting three to flee and blow themselves up with explosives. The fourth was shot dead by a police sharpshooter while apparently trying to detonate his bomb.
A police officer was killed and 10 people were injured.
The blasts came nearly a month after a suicide bombing at an Internet cafe in Casablanca that injured three people. In 2003, five near-simultaneous suicide bombings in the city killed 32 bystanders and 13 attackers, in the North African country’s first brush with Islamic terrorism.
Police have since cracked down on suspected militants, arresting thousands of people.
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