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| Africa: North |
| Two more dead in Algeria violence |
| 2004-05-16 |
| Two more people were killed in separate attacks by suspected Islamic extremists in Algeria, press reports said today. A 37-year-old man who was a captain in the Algerian navy was killed on Friday while on holiday at his parents’ home in the town of Saharidj, some 120 kilometres southeast of Algiers in the Kabylie region, one report said. And the daily newspaper Le Quotidien d’Oran said a farmer was killed on Thursday when he drove his tractor over a bomb left by an armed group at Sidi M’hidi in the western region of Saida. The press on Saturday also reported the deaths of two others on Friday - a soldier killed by an armed extremist group in the eastern region near Jijel, and a local police officer murdered at a fake security force checkpoint at the Tirourda mountain pass, in the Tizi Ouzou region of Kabylie. The latest killings take the number of people reported dead in political violence to more than 230 this year. |
| Posted by:TS(vice girl) |