KARACHI: At 18:16 GMT on Saturday [July 10] the Moroccan Television announced in its French Service that the King was assassinated. In Paris, the French television network, citing a report from the Maghreb News Agency, said that the King was alive. The MNA also said that the King had invested all civil and military powers in the Interior Minister Gen Mohammad Oufkir.
The Moroccan TV announcement said, “The King is dead, Long live the Republic”. It followed reports that a terrorist attack had been directed against the King’s Skirate Palace, some 25 miles south of Rabat during a reception marking the King’s 42nd birthday.