Algeria hit by surge in guerrilla violence

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Its Just Going From Itar Tass

A Buss With Russian Citizens Has Explosed at 130 km from Alger`s ?
Any Confirmation?
Hope Its Rumour .....

Unfortunately not just a rumor, ya Fortunato:

ALGIERS, March 4 (Reuters) - Three Algerians and a Russian were killed in a roadside attack on a bus carrying workers for a Russian gas pipeline construction company, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.

The bus was travelling 130 km (80 miles) south-west of the Algerian capital, Algiers, with 21 workers from Stroitransgaz, which is building a natural gas pipeline there, it said.

It said the attack included two roadside blasts but gave no details on how they were carried out late on Saturday.

Several Russians and Ukrainians were wounded and taken to hospital, it said.

Algerian government officials were unavailable for comment but leading Arabic-language daily El Khabar said the attack was near Kaadat Souane village.

It was the second bomb attack on foreign oil and gas workers since December, when an Islamist group claimed responsibility for bombing a bus carrying oil workers near Algiers.

The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) on December 12 vowed to carry out more attacks on foreigners and warned Muslims to stay away from the "interests of the infidels to avoid harm".

GSPC, renamed the Al Qaeda Organisation in Islamic Maghreb, claimed responsibility for seven deadly bomb attacks on February 13 in two neighbouring provinces east of Algiers.

Four oil workers killed in Algeria bus attack

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March 4 (Itar-Tass) -- A Russian builder hurt in a Saturday terrorist act in Algeria has had a surgery. His condition is stable. Two Ukrainian citizens are lightly injured, press attachй at the Russian embassy in Algiers Sergei Gogolev told Itar-Tass.

Russian Ambassador Vladimir Titorenko and the embassy physician visited the Algiers military hospital, where the wounded staff members of the Russian Stroitransgaz Company were taken by helicopter.

A landmine explosion killed one Russian and three Algerians 130 kilometers southwest of Algiers. Stroitransgaz is building a thermal power plant’s pipeline.

Russian builder injured in Algeria stable after surgery

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Three Algerians and a Russian citizen were killed in a bomb attack near Ain Defla, 130km southwest of Algiers on Saturday (March 2nd). The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement confirming that one Russian citizen was killed and another injured when a convoy transporting "21 Stroitransgaz specialists [and] Algerian gendarmes was hit by two road bombs". At least five workers were injured, including two Ukrainian nationals. The Russian company is laying gas mains between Ain Defla and the neighbouring region of Medea.

There was no immediate claim for the attack, which was the second against foreigners in Algeria, after a homemade bomb hit a bus belonging to US construction company Brown Root and Condor on December 11th, killing the Algerian driver and wounding nine people. The December attack was claimed by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, now operating under the name Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb.

Russian, three Algerian workers killed in bomb attack in Ain Delfa

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Four workers from Russia and Ukraine and three Algerians were killed in a bomb attack on a bus near the town of Ain Defla, south of the capital Algiers, AFP reported on Sunday.

Initial reports from Algeria had said that three Algerians and a Russian have died, and five people have been wounded. However, the death toll was revised upwards later Sunday.

The bus was carrying employees of a Russian firm laying gas mains between Ain Defla, in the region of Medea, and Tiaret, 340 kilometers southwest of the capital, the Algerian newspaper El Khabar reported.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack and official sources have not reported it by early Sunday.

The bus, carrying staff of the Russian company Stroytransgaz, was blown up when it drove over a bomb positioned on its route at the village of Hayoun, the reports said.

The Russian embassy in Algiers declined any reaction. But it was reported from Moscow that Russian diplomats were working with Algerian authorities to investigate the attack.

"The Russian embassy in Algeria has established close cooperation with the national gendarmerie and law enforcement agencies... to investigate the circumstances of the terrorist act and to ensure the complete security of Russian citizens in Algeria," the Russian foreign ministry said.

This is the second attack in recent month against the foreigners based in Algeria.

Last December, one person was killed and nine injured in an attack on a bus carrying staff of the Brown and Root Condor (BRC) Company, a subsidiary of the Algerian Sonatrach oil company and of U.S construction firm Halliburton.

Algerian blast claims 7 lives

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ALGIERS, Algeria: Suspected Islamic militants attacked a police checkpoint in Algeria with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns Sunday, killing five officers and injuring three others, according to a newspaper report.

Algeria's Kabylie region, east of the capital Algiers, has faced a recent upsurge of violence by a Salafist group that claims ties to al-Qaida, including seven car bombings on February 13.

In Sunday's attack, assailants are said to have fired a grenade on a police sport utility vehicle at a key highway crossroads as officers were changing shifts, setting the vehicle ablaze, daily Liberte reported.

A second SUV came under machine-gun fire, Liberte reported in an article to be published Monday, citing witness accounts.

Security forces dispatched reinforcements, prompting a two-hour fire fight. It was not immediately clear whether any of the assailants were detained or injured.

There was no independent verification of the attack.

Renewed violence has surprised this North African country, which has steadily emerged from an Islamic insurgency that killed more than 150,000 people in the 1990s. While scattered violence by the Salafists continues, such carefully planned strikes are rare in Algeria, an ally in the U.S.-led "war on terror."

Report: Five police killed, three wounded in attack by Islamists in Algeria

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7 gendarmes killed in terrorist ambush in Tizi-Ouzou

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ALGIERS, March 4 (KUNA) -- Eight Algerian security personnel were killed by "terrorists" east of the capital, Algiers, a security source said Sunday.

He said in press remarks "terrorists" riding two cars sprayed with bullets a check point set by security forces in Tasost area in tizi Ouzou, 63 kilometers east of Algiers.

The attack killed eight personnel, said the source, while the attackers escaped the scene.

Security forces were combing the area in search of the attackers.

Tizi Ouzou was last month a scene of three car bomb attacks killing three people and injuring three others.

Eight Algerian security personnel killed by "terrorists" - source