Three die in second Morocco blaze
CASABLANCA, Morocco (AFP) — Three people burned to death Monday in a factory fire in the Moroccan city of Casablanca which came hard on the heels of a blaze that killed at least 55 people, officials said.
The three workers, aged between 18 and 24, were sleeping in the shop on the ground floor of a building in the east of Morocco's economic capital when the fire started in the early hours, a fire service official told AFP.
"They tried to open the door but it was closed from the outside and we had to smash it in but it was too late, they had burned to death," the official said.
Emergency services evacuated neighbouring buildings and put out the fire before it could spread. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.
On Saturday, at least 55 peopled locked inside a mattress factory perished in a fire. Moroccan police arrested the owner and manager the following day after an emergency officer said staff had been locked in the complex.
