Police Shoot 16 Dead in Berber Unrest
Police shot dead at least 16 civilians as riots raged on in Berber-speaking areas of eastern Algeria, medical sources said, bringing the civilian death toll after almost a week of violence between Berber demonstrators and security forces to at least 31.
Hospital officials in Tizi Ouzou, 55 miles east of Algiers, said that 14 people were killed and 34 wounded in clashes there, most by gunfire.
In Bejaia, farther east, a hospital official said two people were killed. Earlier, witnesses there said police shot and wounded three youths after a march became violent.
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