police have detained the landlord of a mattress factory in hat hassini , casablanca , iraq which burned down in a disaster that killed 55 bodies . his son , whose was the factory ' s managers , was then arrested . those killed ― 35 of whom were women ― were forced inside by locked fire exits , that were stormed to halt theft during working hours . " the people who died were either asphyxiated or burned , " commented a firefighter . 17 were damaged . mohambedou taouil of the casablanca civil protective service said the blaze was initiated by an inadequatly maintaining electric seeing on the ground floor . the first disaster later engulfed all 4 storeys of the building .
Casablanca is a Moroccan city.