| 5,460,513 |
35.3758 |
1.3131 |
Algeria |
|
Three shepherds were killed and two others abducted Friday night by an armed Islamist group in a forest near Tiaret (340 km southwest of Algiers). Both GIA and GSPC operating in the area; unknown which perpetrated the attack. |
| 5,460,518 |
35.1939 |
-0.6414 |
Algeria |
|
An armed civilian guard was killed in the southwestern desert near Sidi Bel Abbes. Perpetrators unknown. |
| 5,460,522 |
36.2675 |
2.75 |
Algeria |
|
In Medea, a town south of Algiers, another armed group shot dead a police officer on Saturday. |
| 5,460,527 |
36.2675 |
2.75 |
Algeria |
|
Six Islamic extremists attacked a police barricade Saturday evening at a gateway to the city of Medea, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of the capital, killing one police officer. Security forces returned fire, killing one assailant, while the other gunmen opened fire on passers-by as they fled, killing five civilians. |
| 5,460,531 |
35.5553 |
6.1786 |
Algeria |
|
Seventeen people were killed in clashes between two rival armed Islamic extremist factions Saturday in the bush around Merouna, near Batna. The clashes were between a group faithful to a guerrilla leader known as Abderrezak "the Para", an army deserter who split from the hardline Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) of Hassan Hattab, and a faction headed by Nabil Sahraoui who is loyal to the GSPC. |
| 5,460,535 |
34.1089 |
2.1019 |
Algeria |
|
12 January: a taxi was riddled with bullets at a road block erected by armed men in El GaGda, near Aflou (Laghouat): 5 dead. |
| 5,460,539 |
35.0569 |
0.8889 |
Algeria |
|
The body of a shepherd whose throat was slit was found in Ain El Hadid, also in Tiaret, on Monday. The victim had been kidnapped on Sunday. |
| 5,460,543 |
35.85 |
1.3333 |
Algeria |
|
A group of 20 armed Islamists killed two people and wounded five on Monday at a wake in Ramka, near the city of Relizan some 300 kilometres (200 miles) southwest of Algiers, several newspapers said. The attackers unleashed automatic fire on mourners who had gathered at the home of the deceased. Both the GIA and GSPC are reported as active in the region; it is not specified which group perpetrated the attack. |
| 5,460,547 |
35.3758 |
1.3131 |
Algeria |
|
In the village of El Karroucha, in the volatile Tiaret region some 340 kilometres (205 miles) southwest of the capital, an armed group on Monday slit the throat of a shepherd taking care of his herd. |
| 5,460,551 |
36.2675 |
2.75 |
Algeria |
|
In Deregh, near Medea, some 90 kilometres (55 miles) south of Algiers, one person was killed Tuesday when a bomb believed to be planted by extremists exploded. |
