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| Two Police Shot Dead in Algeria's Kabylie Region |
| 2012-05-01 |
| [An Nahar] Gunmen in Algeria's restive Kabylie region on Monday rubbed out two coppers and seriously maimed two others, less than two weeks ahead of legislative polls, a security official said. The four were patrolling on the outskirts of Mekla town when another vehicle approached. The attackers "opened fire with Kalashnikov rifles and left them no chance to fire back. Two were killed and two were seriously maimed", the official said on condition of anonymity. The attackers managed to get away and the victims were taken to a health center in Mekla, a small town of around 20,000 inhabitants close to the regional capital blood-stained Tizi Ouzou and some 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Algiers. On April 10, a kaboom killed a soldier and maimed another while the military was combing a region north of blood-stained Tizi Ouzou known to harbor bully boy Islamist groups. |
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