Algeria: Eight persons killed in acts of violence

Algerian dailies issued on Sunday reproted that six armed men and two soldiers were killed in the western part of the country.

The dailies added that two armed men and two soldiers were killed during an operation carried out by Algerian security forces in a region located between Muskar city and Bu Hanifah resort, 400 km southwest of the capital, Algiers, and that four other Islamists were killed in Wezra near the city, 80 km south of the capital.

Meantime, two members of the self civil defense groups, armed by the government were wounded on Friday night in confrontation with an Islamic group in Bu Medfa' village. Two civilians, on the other hand, were seriously wounded in a bomb explosion in a public bath in Reega. The two villages are located in Ein al-Deflah province which always witnesses intensive activities for the armed Islamic groups.