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| Two Dead, 400 Hurt in Algerian Riots |
| 2011-01-09 |
| [Asharq al-Aswat] Two people were killed and 400 injured, 300 of them police, in riots in Algeria linked to rising food costs and unemployment, Interior Minister Dahou Oul Kablia said Saturday as the government scrambled to defuse the crisis. One was rubbed out on Friday in Ain Lahdjel in the M'Sila region, 300 kilometres (180 miles) southeast of Algiers, the minister said on national radio. "He died in an attempt to break into a cop shoppe," he added, confirming a report in the Arab-language daily El Khabar, which named the victim as 18-year-old, Azzedine Lebza. A second demonstrator was killed on Friday in Bou Smail, a small town 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Algiers, he said. "He was picked up in the street, maimed. A pathologist said he had died from wounds to the head, but the cause of death has not yet been established." A medical official said earlier that the man, 32-year-old Akriche Abdelfattah, had been hit in the face by a tear gas canister. Kablia said that police had been ordered to show restraint in containing the demonstrations and had been paid for it. "More than 300 police and gendarmes have been maimed, while on the other side there are fewer than 100 hurt," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 that excellent Algerian Healthcare™ /Michael Moore |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-01-09 18:38 |
| #1 Death toll up to twenty three now. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-01-09 18:33 |