Casablanca, MOROCCO: Students walk past a dump in Sidi Moumen's Douar Skouila near Casablanca 23 March 2007. Douar Skouila is a slum in Sidi Moumen where lived Abdelfettah Raydi the kamikaze who blew himself up in a cybercafe. Bulldozers began ripping down a slum residence in Casablanca's working-class Sidi Moumen district 22 March, more than a week after a suicide bomber blew himself up there. The first phase of demolition got underway on 120 homes in the Douar Skouila residence, a town hall official said, adding that around 2,000 dwellings are to be pulled down. Getty Images logo Getty Images 59 months ago

Casablanca, MOROCCO: Students walk past a dump in Sidi Moumen's Douar Skouila near Casablanca 23 March 2007. Douar Skouila is a slum in Sidi Moumen where lived Abdelfettah Raydi the kamikaze who blew himself up in a cybercafe. Bulldozers began ripping down a slum residence in Casablanca's working-class Sidi Moumen district 22 March, more than a week after a suicide bomber blew himself up there. The first phase of demolition got underway on 120 homes in the Douar Skouila residence, a town hall official said, adding that around 2,000 dwellings are to be pulled down.

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