World IN BRIEF : ALGERIA : Killers Slit Throat of TV Sports Reporter
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Armed men dressed in police uniforms slit the throat of television sports journalist Makhlouf Boukhezar and stuffed his mutilated body into the trunk of his car, state television reported. The killing in the eastern city of Constantine coincided with newspaper reports that Islamic extremists took control of a television transmitter’s signal in the western city of Oran, the country’s second largest.
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