Five dead after bank set alight

FIVE burned bodies were found in a bank set ablaze in a north Moroccan town in unrest that erupted after weekend demonstrations for change, Interior Minister Taib Cherkaoui said yesterday.

The minister also announced that 128 people, including 115 members of the security forces, were wounded in violence in several towns following largely peaceful demonstrations Sunday to demand political reform.

“The burned bodies of five people were recovered inside one of the bank branches set alight by rioters in the city of Al Hoceima,” he told reporters.