A man has been sentenced to death by a court in Morocco for a cafe bombing which left 17 people, mainly tourists, dead.

The chief suspect in the trial over the bombing of a Moroccan cafe popular with tourists recanted his confession today and denied any involvement in the attack which killed 17 people.

A 25-year-old Swiss woman has died from wounds suffered in last week’s explosion at a cafe in the Moroccan city of Marrakech.

A BOMB killed 15 people including 10 foreigners in Morocco’s bustling tourist destination of Marrakesh, state television said yesterday, in an attack that bore the hallmark of Islamist militants.

An explosion at a cafe in Marrakech has killed several people, Morocco’s state news agency has said.