News from Algeria 2008

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30 blessés dans l'explosion d'un gazoduc de Sonatrach à Relizane

Fourteen people injured in gas pipeline blast in Algeria

ALGIERS, August 18, 2008 (KUNA) -- Fourteen people were injured when a gas pipeline exploded in Relizane, western Algeria, on Monday, oil officials said. No further details were available nor whether the blast disrupted gas production and export operations.

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Yemeni tribesmen abduct French-Algerian man

Algerian oil expert freed by tribesmen

Yemen to track kidnappers of Algerian oil expert

SANA'A, August 18, 2008 (Saba) - The Internal Ministry ordered on Monday its security services in Shabwa province to track persons who were involved in kidnapping of an Algerian oil expert and his two drivers last week.

Tribal gunmen kidnapped last Tuesday the Algerian Yasin Bezo after three of their relatives accused of security issues were put incustody by security forces.

Bezo and two Yemeni drivers were released after being held for one day in a remote area of Shabwa by gunmen belonging to the Lakmoush tribe.

The Algerian oil expert said his kidnappers were kind and generous with him.

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72 heures après l’assassinat du chef du secteur militaire à Jijel :
Un commandant de l’armée et 8 policiers assassinés dans une embuscade à Skikda

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8 policiers, 3 militaires, un garde communal et un civil tués :
Embuscade sanglante près de Skikda

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5 terroristes ont été abattus à Oum El-Bouaghi

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Au moins 25 morts dans un attentat suicide contre l’École supérieure de Gendarmerie des Issers

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L’attentat suicide des Issers a fait 43 morts et 38 blessés