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Five people killed in a bomb explosion in Djelfa
[Ennahar] Five people, including three members of one family were killed Tuesday by a roadside kaboom that went kaboom!in their vehicle in the region of Djelfa (270 km south of Algiers), reported Wednesday the Algerian press. The kaboom occurred as a vehicle was carrying five people on a country road in Selmana, near Djelfa. This attack, not claimed, is the deadliest in Algeria for more than five months. The last major action attributed to armed Islamist groups in Algeria dates back to October 2010, when five soldiers were killed during a sweep in Kabylia (east). A local leader of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, Bouher Mourad alias Abou Turab, was also killed Monday night by the Algerian army in Bordj Menaïel, according to several newspapers. The violence involving armed Islamists has mourned Algeria for two decades but has significantly abated in the last five years. However, The infamous However... they persist in the regions of corpse-littered Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou in Kabylia, in the east, and are assigned to groups claiming to belong to AQIM. Posted by: Fred 2011-03-10 |
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