Algeria youths gunned down

Reports from Algeria say that 10 people have been killed and several others injured in separate attacks.

The state news agency said Islamic extremists killed six people when they opened fire on a group of youths playing football in Zeralda, twenty kilometres (12.5 miles) west of the capital, Algiers.

The agency says three others were wounded, one seriously.

Press reports say two policemen and an Islamic extremist died in a clash in the far north western town of Relizane.

And a child - wounded on Friday in a bomb attack in Chlef, some two hundred kilometres to the west of Algiers - died of injuries on Saturday .

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service