Jobless protesters rioted at the offices of state-run phosphate monopoly OCP in the central city of Khouribga, injuring about ten members of Morocco's security forces, the official MAP news agency said on Tuesday.
The unemployed men invaded OCP's administrative offices and damaged the building's facade with stones, destroyed 11 vehicles and company documentation.
Khouribga is home to the country's biggest phosphate mine.
MAP said several protests have taken place in front of OCP's offices there since Feb 21 to demand jobs. Local officials have promised them jobs, MAP added.
The riots were led "by some individuals who have no link whatsoever with those (job) demands," MAP said.
An OCP spokesman could not immediately comment. Morocco is the world's top phosphate reserves holder and a key supplier of fertilizers and phosphoric acid.
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