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| Africa: North |
| GSPC kills shepherd, 2 guards |
| 2005-05-30 |
| Three Algerian guards and a shepherd have been killed in separate attacks by Islamic militants aiming to disrupt a general amnesty planned for this year, a newspaper said on Monday. Suspected militants cut the throat of a 60-year-old shepherd before burning his body on Saturday in a mountainous area near Batna, 430 km east of the capital Algiers, said Algeria's leading daily El Khabar, citing unnamed sources. Three municipal guards were killed and two more kidnapped on the same day when unnamed armed rebels attacked barracks in the southwestern province of Ain Defla, some 150 km from Algiers. Authorities were not immediately available for comment. Members of Algeria's main rebel movement, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), and the smaller Armed Islamic Group (GIA) have stepped up attacks as the government prepares an amnesty, security experts say. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |