Two policemen killed in Algiers

Two Algerian policemen were killed in Algiers on Monday, while carrying out their guarding mission in the downtown of Algiers. They were attacked by men rising a car.

The attackers opened fire at the two men and confiscated their weapons and then escaped. The police cordoned the site of the incident, and the Algerian security forces gave no information on the identity of the attackers.

One police man died immediately, while his colleague died on the way to the hospital.

On December 17, two police men were killed when they were on duty before a Bank in al-Medya bank, ( 80 ) Km to the south of the capital, where members of the armed Islamic group chaired by Rasheed Abu Turab are active. Abu Turab has not practiced any activity of the sort since several months.