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| Algeria: One soldier killed and six others wounded |
| 2007-01-23 |
| Three-vehicle caravan of Popular National Army was attacked by terrorists on Sunday in a place located in Al-Babur Mountains, between Jijel and Setif. The terrorist attack made killed one and wounded six. According to well informed sources, the military caravan, belonging to the army unit stationed in Al-Babur Mountains, was coming from the place called “Bida”, 10 km southeast of Iraghen Swissi commune, in Jijel, heading toward a locality in a Setif-side of El Babur Mountains when it was surprised by a blast in Meshta Al Frouda, a handmade bomb explosion touched one of the three vehicles. The attack made one killed and six wounded among the militaries, they were in the targeted vehicle. The rest of the caravan’s members tracked then the perpetrators of the attack through the forests surrounding the area. The victims have been evacuated on a helicopter to the military hospital of Constantine while joint security forces launched a vast raking, in search of the terrorists groups hiding in Al Babur Moutains, stronghold of the leaders of Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat’s sixth region. |
| Posted by:Fred |