The police intervened to disperse demonstrators who had sieged the port of the Atlantic city of Sidi Ifni since May 30, MAP said, without quoting specific source.
An unspecified number of youths had sieged the port, preventing89 trucks charged with 800 tons of fish from leaving, which compelled authorities to intervene, the report said.
About twenty people were arrested after demonstrators rejected calls to disperse and set fire to a vehicle belonging to a civil servant, it added.
Al Jazeera reported on Saturday afternoon that between six and ten people died due to a severe police intervention to disperse demonstrators.
Following the diffusion of the information, a probe was launched to determine how it was propagated, MAP said, adding that an Al Jazeera journalist will be questioned by police.
In early May, Morocco banned Al Jazeera from broadcasting a daily news program on north African countries from its Rabat office for ethnical and legal reasons, according to official statements.
Al Jazeera denounced the decision, saying it has political backgrounds, which the Moroccan government denies.
The ban was widely linked to a program aired by the channel in which the famous Egyptian journalist and former presidential advisor, Hassanein Heykal, said late King Hassan II of Morocco maintained close ties with Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad.
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