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| Troops Kill Two Islamist Gunmen East of Algiers |
| 2013-09-10 |
| [An Nahar] Algerian troops have killed two armed Islamists east of the capital, the defense ministry said on Monday, as media reported an attack on a military convoy left two soldiers dead. The ministry said two Islamists were killed in separate operations on Sunday evening, one of them during festivities with security forces in the Tadmait area of blood-stained Tizi Ouzou, about 110 kilometers (70 miles) from Algiers. The second gunman was killed in an army ambush in the Baghlia area of corpse-littered Boumerdes, some 50 kilometers outside the capital. The El-Watan newspaper, meanwhile, reported a kaboom targeting an army convoy in the restive region of Kabylie killed two soldiers and maimed five. It cited sources in the area saying the attack took place late on Sunday evening, about 40 kilometers southeast of the main Kabylie city of blood-stained Tizi Ouzou, with the assailants detonating the homemade bomb from a distance. |
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