Judicial officials inspect the Agana restaurant after a powerful blast killed 15 people in place Djemaa El - Fna square in Marrakesh at the Morocco. Photographer: Abdelhak Senna/AFP/Getty Images 
a man holds a poster of French reading "no to terrorism" close to the area of content-off autour of Agana restaurant after the explosion of a powerful that killed 15 people in place Djemaa El - Fna square in Marrakesh at the Morocco. Photographer: Abdelhak Senna/AFP/Getty ImagesAn explosion ripped through a restaurant in downtown Marrakech, Morocco, killing at least 17 people, television unidentified al Arabiya reported, quoting a security officer who said that it was caused by a suicide bomber.
Yesterday, the attack which injured about 20 people according to Karim Taj, chef de Cabinet of the Minister of communications of the countries of North Africa, hit the Agana Restaurant in Djemma el - Fna square, a popular tourist destination. Six French nationals were among the dead, said Al Arabiya television, without saying where it obtained the information.
"Killing innocent people in this way could be nothing other than an act of terrorism," Taj said in an interview yesterday.
The attack was the most murderous Morocco since 2003, when suicide bombers simultaneously struck five sites in Casablanca, killing over 40 people and injuring at least 100. It struck at the heart of the tourism industry in the Morocco, which represents approximately 10% of the gross domestic product. Revenue from tourism was the largest earner of foreign currency last year, drawing 56.6 billion dirhams ($7 billion).
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "acts of terrorism must not be tolerated where and when they occur," said in a statement released in Washington last night. French President Nicolas Sarkozy also condemned the Act of terrorism, and Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon has expressed his "rejection of the use of indiscriminate violence against civilians innocent firm."
PLACE Free Float Index (the Morocco MOSEMDX) fell by more than 3.5 per cent and decreased by 1.6%, the most since April 1, 9,694.51-3 h 30. about trading yesterday in Casablanca.
"Foreigners are out", Amine Larhrib, head of the Office of the international on the CDG Capital Stock Exchange, said in a telephone yesterday interview of Casablanca. "They are afraid of ending up like they did in Egypt." It is just a normal reaction to the news, but I think it's an isolated incident. ?
A series of bomb attacks took place in 2007 in Casablanca, including two that exploded simultaneously outside the U.S. Consulate General and the American Language Center, according to the U.S. Department of State Web site. He notes that "the potential of terrorist violence against us citizens and interests remains high in the Morocco".
No loss of U.S.
No explosion U.S. losses were reported, Liz Gracon, U.S. Public Affairs Officer, said yesterday in a telephone interview from Casablanca.
The popular protests that toppled Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak and Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali spread to Morocco, even if they were smaller and more peaceful. King Mohammed VI of the Morocco March 9 is committed to create a commission to revise the constitution in June and for a referendum to be held after that. He promised to allow freedom of religion and more transparent justice.
Morocco "will be confronting this ugly crime" and "determined to go ahead with his democratic project", said Taj.
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