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Military forces eliminate three terrorists in Blida

A citizen slaughtered and another killed in a mine explosion
Saturday Jul 07 2007.

Three terrorists have been eliminated by army forces in Blida, while a shepherd have been slaughtered by a terrorist group in a frontier region between Tebessa and Khenchla. Another citizen has been killed when a mine exploded in Tebessa.

Army forces are carrying out, since last Wednesday, a wide military operation in Solhane, a region located in Larbaa municipality (Blida). The operation resulted in the elimination of three terrorists among six others supposed to hide in that surrounded region. The Military forces have identified one of the two corps found; it is about a wanted terrorist whom initials are I.H, originated from El Madania (Algiers). Two Kalashnikov guns have been got back during the same operation.

Furthermore, a terrorist group has slaughtered, the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a shepherd in a frontier region between Tebessa and Khenchla called Fentis. Reliable sources, as well as eyewitnesses mentioned that the killed shepherd disappeared for three days with his troop before being discovered slaughtered Thursday morning.

Joint security forces moved to the spot where 11 elements have been seriously wounded by the explosion of two mines; the first one was hided under the corps, and the other one near to it. The wounded have been immediately transferred in military helicopter to Didouche Mourad Hospital in Constantine

A well informed security source told El Khabar, however that a mine has exploded in El Ghriza region (Tebessa) wounded a man. The victim, 43, lost one leg during the explosion, and then succumbed to his wounds, amid severe bleeding, hours after arriving to a private hospital in Tebessa.

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