Armed group kills two in east Algeria

One armed group killed two persons, one of them is a military man, on Monday evening in Skikda east of the capital Algiers, just several days after the Algerians approved a charter for peace and reconciliation.

Algerian papers explained that the two persons were killed before Cafe of Um Katita town which is 40 km to the north of Skikda, noting that 30 gunmen believed to be members of al-Salafeyah group for call and fighting verified the identities of the customers of the Cafe and after they found one military man who was in a vacation, they withdrew him out and killed him outside the Cafe along with the owner of the place.

The two Algerian dailies al-Watan and Luctidian quoted survivors that the gunmen who were in the uniform of the security men were preparing to kill the other 18 persons in the Cafe when one car light flashed, they thought for the police, obliged them to flee towards a nearby forest.

The security forces announced on Monday the killing of three gunmen and one civilian of the self defense forces during one operation carried out by the Algerian army in Saeeda province west of the capital.

The renewed acts of violence came days after the ratification of the Algerians of the presidential charter for peace and national reconciliation which is presumed to close a file of acts of violence in the country which had inflicted 150,000 killing.