Algeria: nine persons killed in a bomb explosion, armed men attack
Algeria, Local, 11/22/2002

A security source in the Algerrian capital, Algiers, said that six persons were killed and other two were wounded yesterday morning in a bomb explosion in Masela area, southern east of the capital. The source said that this bomb detonated when a rental car was running on road linking Ein reish area to Masela.

On the other hand, three persons from one family were killed and another person was wounded by an armed group on Wednesday evening in Jeijl area to the east of the capital Algiers, according to the Algerian news agency.

Armed Islamists attacked the house of a family before they had killed the father, who is a member in the nationalists group ( government armed civilians ) and his two ( 3 and 5 year old daughters ) while the mother was strongly wounded, according to the same source. The number of killings in Algeria in the acts of violence in Algeria increased since the beginning of Ramadan on November 6 to 30 persons.

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