| [Maghrebia] Terrorists killed five Algerian municipal guards and kidnapped two others Monday (June 22nd) near Chachar, Khenchela province, L'Expression reported. This is the third terrorist attack against security forces in the eastern region of the country in recent weeks. Nearly two dozen gendarmes died on May 17th in an al-Qaeda ambush in Bordj Bou Arréridj. In late May, nine members of an elite Algerian army parachute unit were killed in a co-ordinated attack by 50 terrorists in Biskra province. |