Rabat, May 20: Two of the 14 men who carried out last week's multiple suicide bombings in Casablanca are alive and in custody, not one as previously announced, Moroccan interior minister Mustapha Sahel has said. Sahel said on state television yesterday that 12 assailants, not 13 as initially reported, had died during their five-pronged assault on Friday, while "one terrorist was picked up the same evening, and security services carried out the arrest of the 14th last evening." The Interior Minister said that progress in the probe allowed investigators to "confirm our presumptions on the connection with international terrorism."
He added, "The network that committed these terrorist acts in Casablanca has been fully identified."
The attacks claimed 28 civilian lives.
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