Eleven massacred fifteen from army dead in Algeria

Gunmen in Algeria on Saturday night killed 11 citizens in Rabayeha town in al- Medea province, 90 km south of the capital, Algiers.

A statement released by the Algerian security forces on Sunday said that immediately following the new massacre, the Algerian security forces started a mopping up operation in the area in search of the killers.

The Algerian daily al-Aseel said that 15 Algerian army members were killed and other 20 were wounded during an attack launched on Friday against a military barrack in a mountain in al-Shalf province. The paper noted that three armed men were also killed during the confrontation.