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For three consecutive days, the town of Ghardaia has experienced unrest due to intercommunal clashes. Several houses, stores, and cars have been destroyed, others burned completely. The violence began in the Theniet El-Makhzen district last week and spread quickly to other places to finally settle in the El-Kaouty district. The clashes were triggered when unknown young people, arriving in large numbers, attacked the El-Kaouty district in the evening and smashed the windows of cars belonging to inhabitants as well as setting fire to several houses. These facts caused the citizens to come out to defend their property, resulting in sharp clashes between the two parties and then with the security forces that intervened and tried in vain to control the situation. |
