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| Three soldiers killed and 2 injured in Jijel |
| 2011-06-07 |
| [Ennahar] Three soldiers were killed and two others maimed by gunnies in the region of Jijel, a coastal city located 360 km east of Algiers, the Algerian press reported Monday. The first soldier was killed by a shot gun and his body trapped in the resort of Sidi Abdelaziz, twenty miles from Jijel, according to Algerian press. The gunnies waited until his comrades arrived to make him explode. Two soldiers died and two others were seriously injured, said El Khabar quoting security forces. Security forces have launched a combing operation to trace the attackers, according to the Le Soir daily. Jijel and further west, the region of Kabylia, remain the scene of numerous attacks usually attributed to Islamist groups claiming to belong to Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). And this, despite the implementation in 2006 of a charter of national reconciliation offering pardon to Islamist snuffies in exchange for their surrender. Latest attack, on June 4, four coppers were killed in a bombing at a hundred kilometers east of Algiers, in Kabylia. In April and May, these regions were the scene of a series of attacks against security forces, which caused thirty dead. |
| Posted by:Fred |