Algeria: gunmen kill seven persons in al-Shalf

A security source in Algeria said on Tuesday that an armed group killed 7 persons on Monday evening in al-Shalf province to the west of the capital Algiers.

The source added that the gunmen, during night, attacked Wilad Alal village near Buqadir and assassinated two persons. Then the armed group attacked the house of one member of the self defense force before they killed the father, the mother and their children aging four, 12 and 14 years.