One Killed in Riot After Singer’s Burial

Rioters stoned police and stormed government buildings in the east after tens of thousands of people attended the burial of a slain singer who had defended the minority Berber culture. Police responded with gunfire, killing at least one person, as rioting over Thursday’s slaying of Lounes Matoub, 42, continued, witnesses and officials said. Matoub was the latest Algerian artist to be killed during a six-year Muslim insurgency that has claimed more than 75,000 lives. Shortly after the funeral, fighting broke out in Tizi-Ouzou, a regional center 60 miles east of Algiers, the capital. There were reports of unrest in other cities populated by Berbers, a Muslim people of North Africa. The death of the rioter brings to four the number killed since the protests began. About 100 people have been reported injured.