Three killed in an ambush implanted by gunmen to the west of Algiers

Press reports said that three persons were killed on Monday evening by armed men in Teibaza province, to the west of the Capital Algiers.

The Algerian daily al-Khabar explained that the three killed men were trapped by a fake barrier installed by one armed group between Burqiqa and Humr al-Oyoun but no other details were given.

This incident comes one day after the Algerian security forces announced that it had killed two gunmen in a place called al-Dai'a in Seidi Bul'abas province to the west of the capital, Algiers.

Meantime, the French daily Le Matin, said that two soldiers were killed and other seven wounded on Saturday in two bombs explosions when a patrol for the Algerian army was running in the woods in al-Kbyle area to the east of the capital.

It added that the soldiers were mopping up an area bombarded by artillery, they were surprised by two explosions near Baqleyat in Teize Ozo province.

Al-Kbyle area is known as being the theatre for the al- Salafeyah al-Dawa Wal Qital group which rejects national reconciliation policy advocated by the Algerian President Abdul Aziz Butaflika.

Since the beginning of April some 12 persons were killed five of them were member of the security forces in acts of violence in which involved were Islamists gunmen, according to a statistics prepared by official and press information. Acts of violence since the beginning of the year resulted in killing 140 persons.