police have indicted the owner of a mattress factory in ham hassini , casablanca , morocco which burned down in a disaster that claims 55 lives . his children , who was the factory ' s proprietor , was similarly arrested . those killed ― 35 of whom were women ― were trapped outside by locked fire exits , who were entrances to stop theft during working hours . " the people responsible fell were either suffocate or burned , " responded a medic . 17 were wounded . moustapha taouil of the moroccan environmental protection service said the blaze was triggered by an inadequatly located electric saw on the ground floor . the main fire quickly engulfed all twelve storeys of the hotel .
Casablanca is a Moroccan city.