CASABLANCA (Morocco), April 10: An operation on Tuesday by Moroccan police to track down a suicide bombers’ cell in the port city of Casablanca ended after three of the bombers blew themselves up and a fourth was shot dead.

A dawn operation in the El Fida district led to the first confrontation in the small hours of the morning, in which two suspects died. One was shot dead by the police and the other blew himself up.

Later in the afternoon, a police inspector died after a third man blew himself up in the same district. Two other police officials and a child were also hurt. Later a fourth suspect blew himself up in a crowd, said a police source.

“It was the fourth member of the group police were looking for,” said the source.

In the first operation, Moroccan police found the suspects after surrounding a house as part of an operation to find suspects in the March 11 bomb attack on an Internet cafe.

Early in the morning, one of the suspects had come out of the house armed with a sabre and wearing a belt of explosives.

—AFP