Eight persons killed in Algeria violence

Eight persons were killed in Algeria, including seven armed men who are suspected to belonging to Islamist groups, during violence in separate areas in the country during the last two days.

The Algerian newspaper El-Khabar said yesterday that four armed persons were killed on Friday and Saturday in two separate operations by the security forces in southwest and western Algeria, as three of them were killed in Lerjal muniplicity in a clash between an armed group with a group of the municipal guards (the village police).

It added that other extremists fell into a trap inside a ranch in Zehana village, while a fifth armed man who might be from the activists in the Armed Islamic Group was killed on Friday by the army in the northeast part of the country.