Number of deaths in the attack of the Morocco rises to 16

 Charming snakes Ghali Nouiti was hanging his pet around the neck of a European tourist are suspicious for a photo session, you still plu type fear: terror bombing that authorities now say Moroccan has the characteristics of an attack by al-Qaeda.

Explosion Thursday at a popular café overlooking the famous Djemaa el - Fna square in Marrakech blew fragments, parts of the body and the debris on the vast plaza covered with tiles, killing at least 16 people - including 14 foreign tourists - and shattering image of the Morocco as a place peaceful getaway.

"The way reminds us the style generally used by al-Qaeda," the Minister of the Interior Taieb Cherqaoui said Friday, "and this leads us to think that there is a possibility more dangers to come."

He stopped short to confirm a link with the Group of terror, including affiliate in North Africa was mainly active in neighbouring Algeria and South more.

The number of dead rose to 16 after a French woman has succumbed to his injuries, he said. In total, seven French, two Canadians, a Dutch and a Briton were among those killed. Experts were continuing to try to identify the other three through DNA tests, but he said that they were too raw to be foreign.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadly attack of the Morocco five terrorist attacks caused nearly simultaneous bombings killed 45 people - including a dozen attackers - the capital of the economic country, Casablanca, in 2003.

Cherqaoui said that initial results suggested the bomb was packed with nails and was triggered remotely. Earlier, Interpol, the international police force, had said that it appeared to be a suicide attack.

With an asp page head pinched between fingers, Nouiti, a charming of snakes aged 30 years and third generation, this theory confirmed: he said one of his colleagues was hospitalized after being hit by a nail in the nose.

He and many others in Marrakech fear for economic benefits if tourists are scare - and for a country of 30 million which have attracted about 10 million tourists last year, the effect is potentially disastrous.

Ahmed El Gharbi, the co-owner of café Glacier, another restaurant offering a view of majestic on Djemaa el - Fna square, said tourists Friday evening declined by 70% of an ordinary day.

"The attackers have destroyed us," said Nouiti, wearing a traditional Cape Tagia and Djellabah dress. The explosion hit, his legs and fastened, and even if he wanted to rush to help, he simply could not move.

"Yesterday, the plaza was complete, and we had passed right in front of the cafe..." We have seen a large plume of smoke, and many objects goes up in the air, said Stephane Le Pretre, a tourist Rouen in Northwest, old France of 46 years traveling with his children. They were watching on the dead leaves.

In a calm and peaceful Vigil, hundreds of the industry of the city of crucial home inhabited the site Friday, variously white flowers of lifting, raising up to two fingers in a "C" or bearing stickers reading: "I (heart) Marrakech.".

The names of some of the hotels in the high-level city decorate wreaths laid along steel barriers outside the café, such as forensic teams of police of the Morocco and France and Spain flavour indoors to inspect the damage.