Algeria: Five persons killed by armed group in Tébessa

Five people were killed between Saturday night and early Sunday morning by armed Islamists near Tébessa, in the extreme east of the country, Liberté has announced. According the same source, an armed group raided Chetabïa, a small village near the Tunisian border, where they slaughtered a shepherd and his flock. At dawn, three members of the family of the victim, accompanied by a locally elected official, were killed when their vehicle hit a bomb buried in the ground