An Algerian mayor from the Boumerdes region east of Algiers was assassinated by a group or armed men, while security forces killed six militants in the region and further east near Tizi Ouzou, reports said yesterday. The mayor of Amal in the Boumerdes region, 50 kilometers east of Algiers, was killed Thursday night by a group of around 40 armed men who set up a fake roadblock on a mountain road, newspaper reports said. The mayor of the neighboring town of Baghlia narrowly escaped a car bomb attack after an explosive device was discovered under the chassis of his vehicle, the reports added. Separately, four militants were killed by security forces early Friday in Beni Amrane, near Boumerdes, L'Expression newspaper reported. Two others were gunned down Friday by security forces in Ait Ouadane, near the town of Tizi Ouzou, 110 kilometers east of Algiers, Le Quotidien d'Oran newspaper said.