Algeria

June 2008 | Ratings Update

According to security sources, eight soldiers, two firemen, a local man and a French engineer were killed on June 8 by two bombs, which were detonated in quick succession at a railway station in Beni Amrane, east of Algiers. In separate incidents, two people were killed near a military barracks on June 4 and six soldiers died the following day when their convoy hit an explosive device. The engineer was the first French citizen to be killed in Algeria as a result of political violence since the 1990s. In the past year, several large French firms including

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