Blast at Marrakesh tourist cafe kills 15

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.

The blast ripped through a cafe overlooking Marrakesh’s Jamaa el-Fnaa square, a spot that is often packed with foreign tourists. A Reuters photographer said he saw rescuers pulling dismembered bodies from the wreckage.

State-run 2M television said the 15 dead comprised six French nationals, five Moroccans and four foreigners whose nationality it did not give.