British Tourists Stabbed in Knife Attack on Agadir Beach Promenade

Armed with a large knife, a man stabbed a British couple and a Belgian of Moroccan origin as they were walking on the Agadir corniche. "I was going to take photos and everything was beautiful, a sunny day, everyone was happy, then I started to hear screams. It’s a different kind of scream. When you hear that, you instantly know something is wrong. [...] He struck two people with a machete," recounts a British witness to MailOnline. Arrived in Morocco to spend the Christmas holidays, this man had gone to the beach to take photos when he witnessed the scene.

He explained that at first he thought someone had been trampled by a camel until he walked up the beach and asked a family what had happened.

"They said ’no, a man just took off his clothes’, I saw the clothes myself, and ’he slashed a few people with a machete’". He then tried to flee by sea.

"I had my camera with a big lens and I just started taking pictures [...] from there," said the witness.

He was arrested and then taken into custody. Injured in the legs and back, the victims were rushed to the Hassan II Hospital in Agadir. Two of them were discharged from the hospital, while the third is still hospitalized.

The motive for the attack remains to be determined. The police are currently investigating to determine whether it is a terrorist attack, reports the Spanish newspaper La Razon, adding that the 33-year-old suspect had been imprisoned three years ago for drug trafficking offenses.