Violence continues in Algeria

Three persons were killed and another five wounded in a bomb explosion on Sunday morning on the road leading from Saeeda to Sidi Bel Abbes province.

The Algerian daily Al-Khabar on Monday reported that three members of the Algerian municipal guards were killed in a confrontation with armed groups on Sunday. It also indicated that more than 10 gunmen recently surrendered themselves to security forces.

The Algerian daily Al-Shaab, meanwhile, said that Algerian army troops in Annaba province killed the Mufti of the gunmen, known as Mibrak Yazid. The killing of Yazid came during a mopping up operation carried out in the past two days in the woods of Ein Barber and Barhal town in Annaba province.

Sawt al-Ahrar daily said the Armed Islamic Group killed two Algerian citizens, including a woman in al-Remshe town in Telmesan province at a fake roadblock they established on Saturday on the road linking Wahran and Telmesan.

The paper added that army forces killed three gunmen in Sidi Bel Abbes province.