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1/29/13, "Two security guards killed in attack on gas pipeline in Algeria" AFP, Algiers
"Two security guards protecting a gas pipeline have been killed
and seven others wounded in an attack by Islamists southeast of the
Algerian capital, local residents said yesterday.
The guards, who were attacked late on Sunday at their quarters in
Djebahia, 125km southeast of Algiers, were part of an armed civilian
unit protecting a gas pipeline in the Bouira region.
An “armed Islamist group” carried out the attack around 9pm (2000 GMT),
and after an hour-long firefight two guards were found dead, the
residents said, citing survivors of the assault.
A medical source told AFP the bodies of the two guards killed were
transferred to Mohamed Boudiaf de Bouira hospital, where five of their
colleagues were taken for treatment of gunshot wounds.
The army has launched a search operation for the assailants who fled, the residents said.
The attack comes nearly a fortnight after a deadly Islamist attack on a
gas plant in Algeria’s southern Sahara desert, in a hostage-taking
siege that ended with the deaths of almost 40 captives, mostly
foreigners.
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the global network’s North Africa
franchise, has its roots in Algeria, where it is active in the Bouira
region and in neighbouring Boumerdes and Tizi Ouzou."
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