Fires Morocco

Sixty-two people were injured, some of them seriously, in a huge fire that raged for four hours in a crowded shantytown in Casablanca on Thursday night, the official Moroccan news agency WMA reported Friday. It said the blaze destroyed 250 homes. The cause was not known.

Twenty-eight prisoners died in a fire in the Casablanca prison complex of Oukacha on Saturday, Morocco's official news agency reported. "Twenty-eight [Moroccan] detainees died in a fire in Oukacha prison. . . . A judiciary investigation was opened to determine the cause of the fire," the agency quoted a Justice Ministry statement as saying. It gave no other details.

Twenty-eight prisoners died in a fire in the Casablanca prison complex of Oukacha on Saturday, Morocco's official news agency reported. "Twenty-eight [Moroccan] detainees died in a fire in Oukacha prison. . . . A judiciary investigation was opened to determine the cause of the fire," the agency quoted a Justice Ministry statement as saying. It gave no other details.

Sixty-two people were injured, some of them seriously, in a huge fire that raged for four hours in a crowded shantytown in Casablanca on Thursday night, the official Moroccan news agency WMA reported Friday. It said the blaze destroyed 250 homes. The cause was not known.