9 jailed in Casablanca blasts escape
Nine radical Islamists jailed in connection with the 2003 Casablanca suicide bombings that killed 45 people broke out of top-security Kenitra prison, 25 miles east of Rabat, the Moroccan Justice Ministry said.
A security source said the prisoners dug a tunnel under their cells.
Islamist prisoner-rights advocacy group Ennassir said the jailbreak coincided with the beginning of a one-day hunger strike by about 1,000 Islamist inmates at several prisons.
Ennassir Chairman Abderrahim Mohtad said the fasters were protesting what they called mistreatment and repression by prison officials.
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