Two new massacres in Algeria

Some 18 persons were killed on Sunday in two massacres said to be carried out by the armed Islamic groups in al-Medya to the South of the capital Algiers. One armed group attacked a family in a village near al-Medya city and killed 12 of them and all the killed are women and children and kidnapped two young women.

Meantime, six shepherds were killed in a village, just 20 KM to the east of al-Medya city.