Muslim Militants Slaughter 47 in Algeria
<i> Associated Press</i>
ALGIERS —
Muslim militants armed with sabers, axes and knives killed 47 people in two villages south of Algiers, defying the government’s claims that it is crushing an insurgency, newspapers and witnesses reported Thursday.
The victims included three babies whose bodies were mutilated and a pregnant woman who was hacked open and her baby cut into pieces, witnesses said.
The killings, which began late Tuesday, bring to about 420 the number of people killed in villages around the capital in the past month.
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