Some 13 persons killed in Algeria in two days

The Algerian dailies on Thursday said that 13 persons, including five soldiers, were killed on Tuesday and Thursday in acts of violence in the country.

The soldiers were killed in an ambush implanted by the Armed Islamic Group in the small Tigzirt coastal town in al Kebayel region to the east. An area where "prince of the Armed Islamic Group" in the central eastern part of the country Hassan Hattab is very active. Hattab opposes the leader of the Islamists group, Antar al-Zawabri.

Meantime, a water reservoir guard was killed in a bomb explosion that destroyed the reservoir in Sedi Ali Sharif town near Seig in the western part of the country. Two persons were found killed in Burumi town, near Bleida province in the western part of the country.

Algerian security forces also killed five armed Islamists, three of them in Bleida and another two in al-Kebayl area.