Fez, Morocco - Police Re-Arrest 2 Islamists who Fled Jail

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Fez, Morocco - Moroccan police tracked down two radical Islamists accused of links to the country's worst suicide bombings, two months after they tunnelled out of a top-security prison.

Hammou Hassani is under a death sentence after being found guilty of involvement in the attacks in Casablanca in May 2003 that targeted Western and Jewish interests and killed 45 people. Abdellah Boughmir, jailed on similar charges, was serving life.

The two were arrested on the outskirts of the northern Moroccan city of Fez.

Nine Islamists fled Kenitra prison, 40 kilometres northeast of the capital Rabat, in the early hours of April 7 through a tunnel over 20 metres long that came up in the grounds of the prison.