Death toll rises as anti-government protests continue in Morocco

A boy stands next to a torched police vehicle (Mosa’ab Elshamy/AP)

Moroccan authorities have updated the death toll from this week’s unrest to three, saying that armed teenage rioters stormed public buildings as the youth-led anti-government demonstrations showed few signs of abating.

Security forces opened fire at demonstrators on Wednesday, killing three people, in Leqliaa, a small town outside the city of Agadir. The previous death toll was two.