Algeria: 9 dead 4 wounded in terrorist attacks

Nine security agents working for Sonelgaz, the biggest energy production company in Algeria, were killed while two others were seriously injured, Sunday evening, in an attack that targeted their base stituated in the Jigel region, about 300 km from the capital, Algiers. Three simultaneous bombs also went off Thursday in the Boumerdes wilaya (close to Algiers), wounding two people. The Algerian air force, in return, bombarded the Ousteli mountains, in the Batna wilaya (435 km east of Algiers) where armed groups are claimed to have taken refuge.