17 Farmers Killed in Attack on Convoy
From Times Wire Reports
Assailants ambushed a convoy of farmers along a rural road in western Algeria, slashing the throats of 17 people before escaping, the nation’s media reported.
The attack Sunday in Ouled Bouaza, about 200 miles southwest of Algiers, the capital, was one of the bloodiest in recent weeks in Algeria, where Islamic militants have waged a bloody campaign against the government since the army canceled 1992 elections that a now-banned Muslim fundamentalist party was strongly favored to win.
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