Morocco riots leave five dead | World news | guardian.co.uk: "Sporadic outbursts of violence have continued in Morocco after Sunday's peaceful pro-democracy protests gave way to rioting, with five people killed in a fire at a bank in the northern port of Al Hoceima.
Interior ministry figures showed that the protests were far more extensive than first thought, with nearly 40,000 people turning out in 57 towns and cities.
Protest organisers condemned the rioting and looting that followed the demonstrations, blaming it on thugs and football hooligans returning from matches.
While the mostly middle-class pro-democracy protesters had pledged to remain peaceful, there were warnings before the marches that the real tinderbox in Morocco lay in the poverty-stricken outer suburbs of the cities, where many of Sunday's rioters are thought to live.
Outbreaks of violence continued on Monday in Fes, with at least three people injured, according to Morocco's Atlantic Radio.
Clashes were also recorded in the northern towns of Ait Bouayach and Imzourne, Spain's El País newspaper reported."
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