 ALGIERS — Algerian terrorists militants have killed three civilians in separate attacks only days after a peace offer to end a long-running conflict was approved in a referendum, national newspapers reported yesterday.
Two civilians died and three others were injured on Saturday when their car drove over a bomb planted by terrorists rebels in the southwestern province of Medea, 120km from the capital Algiers, El Khabar said.
In a separate attack on Saturday, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) decapitated a 62-year-old animal breeder in the M’Sila province southwest of Algiers. Authorities were not immediately available for comment.
In a September 29 referendum, Algerians approved a government offer of partial amnesty for terrorists rebels, in a drive to end more than a decade of civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people. The GSPC, Algeria’s largest outlawed terrorist militant movement, has rejected the offer, according to an Internet statement. |