*New suicide attacks hit Morocco*

It is the second attack by suicide bombers in Casablanca this week

Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up in the Moroccan city of
Casablanca, officials say.

One woman passer-by was injured in the blasts, which happened near the
US consulate and its cultural centre.

The incident came four days after three people blew themselves up and a
fourth was shot dead during a police raid on suspected militants in the
city.

The men were wanted in connection with a 11 March bombing at an internet
cafe in Casablanca.

Hours after the two men blew themselves up, police arrested the leader
and deputy leader of a group behind the 11 March attack and the ones
earlier this week, security sources and local media said.

They did not identify the men arrested.

Regional fears

The two bombers - identified by police as brothers - blew themselves up
in Boulevard Moulay Youssef in the city's central district.

One of the two bombers asked a policeman for access to the American
cultural centre and when questioned further the pair blew themselves up,
security officials told the French news agency AFP.

"I saw a man talking to a policeman, trying to distract him I guess,
while another man walked by to the consulate and blew himself up over
there," a passer-by said.

Morocco map

Police arrested three people after the bombings and found another
explosives belt, officials and police said.

An interior ministry official told the Associated Press news agency that
the belt linked the brothers with the men who blew themselves up on
Tuesday - as they were confronted by Moroccan police in a Casablanca
suburb. A fourth suspected militant was shot and one policemen was
killed in one of the blasts.

The BBC's Richard Hamilton in Rabat said Moroccan police have been
searching for members of an alleged terrorist cell that was planning
what they say was a massive bombing campaign against tourist resorts and
foreign-owned ships.

It follows last month's bombing when the alleged ringleader of the group
killed himself in an internet cafe in the city, our correspondent says.

BBC Arab affairs analyst Magdi Abdelhadi says the recent foiled suicide
attempts in Morocco, coupled with recent explosions in neighbouring
Algiers have raised fears of a new surge of radical Islamist violence in
North Africa.

The Moroccan authorities last week played down the possibility of a link
between the latest incidents in Casablanca and the blasts in Algiers.