Marrakech, Morocco – Morocco’s interior minister says initial results of a probe into a cafe bombing in Marrakech that killed 15 people show the device was set off remotely.
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The statement Friday by Taieb Cheqaoui excludes the notion that a suicide bomber carried out the attack a day earlier in the historic Djemma el-Fna square in the city’s bustling old quarter that is a magnet for tourists.
The Israeli consul in Shanghai, Jackie Eldan, identified two of the dead as a Jewish couple who lived there — an Israeli citizen and her Moroccan husband. They were visiting his parents in Casablanca and had taken a day trip, leaving their 3-year-old son with his grandparents.
“They took a day off to go to Marrakech and left the child with the family. To their misfortune, they were in the cafe on the second floor” when the bombing hit, Eldan told Israeli station Army Radio on Friday.
