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| Five soldiers killed in a bomb attack in El Kennar Jijel |
| 2011-05-07 |
| [Ennahar] A suicide kaboom occurred on the morning of Friday, May 6 against a military convoy on the RN43, in the town of El Kennar, in the province of Jijel (360 km east of Algiers), has killed five soldiers and maimed many others according to el Watan daily. The blast which occurred around 7.30 am, and which was heard several miles away, reached essentially the last truck in the convoy. The bomb which was apparently operated remotely, was buried on the edge of the road around the town of El Kennar, about twenty miles east of Jijel, adds the same daily. According to reports, the kaboom, which brought a large hole in the ground occurred near the retarder installed on the road to split the traffic at this location from where a trail begins that leads to the town of Faza, within the same municipality. |
| Posted by:Fred |