Algiers, March 15 (IANS)
Algerian army Friday killed
eight militants, including seven near its border with Tunisia, and seized a large amount of ammunition suspected for planning a terrorist attack, the media reported. "Detachments from the
army killed on Friday at around 1 p.m. (GMT) seven armed
militants in the locality of El Khenigue, in the province of Tebessa," some 500 km east of the capital Algiers, Xinhua quoted the
Algerian defence ministry as saying. The
army troops seized seven Kalashnikov rifles, two vehicles, 3,500 cartridges of different calibres, grenades, as well as means of communication and night vision, the ministry said, adding the
militants were setting up an ambush. Reports said the
militants intruded from neighbouring Tunisia, and attempted to take refuge in the Boudjelal mountains before being surrounded and killed.
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