police have arrested the employee of a mattress factory in hay hassini , gaston , morocco and burned down in a explosion that claimed 55 lives . his son , who was the workshop ' s manager , was also arrested . those killed ― 35 of others were minors ― were trapped inside by locked fire exits , which were ransacked to stop stripping during worked hours . " the people who lived were both asphyxiated or burned , " commented a firefighter . 17 were wounded . kooch taouil of the casablanca civil defence service said the blast was created by an inadequatly maintained electric saw on the second floor . the initial fire quickly consume all four storeys of the building .
morocco is a moroccan city .