ALGIERS: Algerian troops killed two armed Islamists in the restive Boumerdes province east of the capital where Al Qaeda forces are active, a security source said yesterday.
The two men were killed in an army ambush at around midnight on Sunday in the Baghlia area of Boumerdes, some 50 kilometres outside Algiers, he said, cited by the national APS news agency.
Independent daily El Watan, quoting its sources, said the two gunmen were former members of the GSPC, a jihadist group active during Algeria’s civil war in the 1990s that later renamed itself Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
Sunday night’s ambush comes exactly a fortnight after two Islamist gunmen were killed in separate military operations in Boumerdes province.
AFP
