Nine Casablanca bombers escape jail via tunnel

NINE radical Islamists jailed for their links to the 2003 Casablanca suicide bombings that killed 45 people broke out of a Moroccan top security jail yesterday, the Justice Ministry said.

The nine men escaped from Kenitra prison, 40km east of Rabat.

“All the measures have been taken to arrest the escaped detainees,” the ministry said, adding that the authorities were investigating how the prisoners broke free.