Seven Algerians killed by gunmen

An armed group in Algerian have assassinated 7 Algerian citizens and kidnapped a 18-year old girl on Monday night as they broke into two houses of two families in Ein al-Sultan province, in Ein al-Defli, which is 100 Kms. far from the capital Algiers.

The Algerian dailies issued on Wednesday "al-Bilad, Sawt al- Ahrar, al-Sahafa and al-Khabar" said that the group attacked surprisingly the Rabihi family which lived in an isolated place to carry out its crimes and killed the father by fire bullets and knifed the mother and the three children who age between 24 to 8 and then kidnapped a girl after setting fire in the house of the victims.

Then the same group went to the house of " Khadrawi" family which is almost 400 meters from the first house and killed the father by the knife and the 12-year old boy by a stick and for the luck of other members of the family they were outside the house when the crime took place..

This is, however, the second crime in " Ein al-Defli " province within less than one week.