Twenty-five people were killed in a fire on Saturday at a mattress factory in the country's largest city Casablanca, official Moroccan news agency MAP reported.

The fire broke out at 10 a.m. (1000 GMT) on Saturday morning on the ground floor of the factory, which also seriously injured eight others, including a police officer, MAP said.

Some 100 firefighters went to work to put out the blaze.

No immediate reports about the cause of the blaze are available at the moment, but an inquiry has been launched to determine it, according to the report.

The factory employs some 150 workers, with some 60 of them were reported to be present at the time when the fire broke out.

(Xinhua April 27, 2008)