- Title: Morocco vigils honour Scandinavian women killed in Atlas Mountains
- Date: 22nd December 2018
- Summary: TWO WOMEN HOLDING SIGNS READING (English): ''STOP TERRORISM AND EXTREMISM / RIP MAREN AND LOUISA'' WOMEN STOOD HOLDING BANNERS VARIOUS SIGNS CONDEMNING TERRORISM VARIOUS OF FLOWER TRIBUTES AND PICTURES OF VICTIMS (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) STUDENT, IBTISSAM, SAYING: "We came here to take part as students, Moroccans and Muslims. We are here to express our rejection of terrorism a
- Embargoed: 5th January 2019 20:08
- Keywords: terror death attacks suspects North Africa tourists vigil attack deaths Norwegian police Islamic State militant attacks killings Morocco
- Location: RABAT, MOROCCO
- City: RABAT, MOROCCO
- Country: Morocco
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice
- Reuters ID: LVA0059C10YMF
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Vigils were held on Saturday evening (December 22) in Rabat to mark the deaths of two women from Norway and Denmark who were killed in the Atlas Mountains earlier this week.
Tens of participants from different political parties and civil society organisations laid flowers and lit candles in front of the Norwegian embassy and later at the Danish embassy.
They also raised placards denouncing the killing of the two Scandinavian tourists and expressing condolences and solidarity with their families.
Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren Ueland, 28, from Norway were found dead on Monday (December 17) with cuts to their necks near the village of Imlil, on the way to Toubkal, North Africa's highest peak and a popular hiking destination.
Four suspects, aged between 25 and 33 years from areas near Marrakech, have been arrested in connection with their deaths.
The four suspects pledged allegiance to IS and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a video made last week, Moroccan authorities said.
Nine other individuals were arrested by the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations on Friday (December 21) in various Moroccan cities over suspected connections to the killers. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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