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| Riots erupt across Algeria over prices, jobs |
| 2011-01-06 |
| Sounds very French: Disaffected "youths" in sensitive areas doing Car-b-Queues Riots erupted in Algeria over food prices, housing and lack of work, with youths in the capital stoning a police station, torching tyres and destroying cars, witnesses and media said Thursday. Violence flared in Algiers late Wednesday after weeks of protests across the oil-rich country that come as similar unrest linked to unemployment and living costs has shaken neighbouring Tunisia since mid-December. Clashes erupted after dark in the capital's Bab El Oued district when dozens of youths stoned a police station and torched a car dealership, destroying about a dozen vehicles, an AFP photographer said. "They hurled stones at the anti-riot police in the area. A group of youths wrecked a bus shelter," a resident told AFP by telephone. Protesters also barricaded a road with flaming tyres to prevent security forces from arriving, in a similar pattern to another demonstration in the western suburb of Cheraga. Dozens of youths also set alight tyres, barricaded roads with tree trunks and hurled objects at drivers in a protest Wednesday in Oran, 430 kilometres (270 miles) west of the capital. |
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