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Sunday, 21 December, 1997, 12:57 GMT
More reports of killing in Algeria

Press reports from Algeria say at least eight people have been killed in two separate bomb explosions on the outskirts of the capital, Algiers.

A daily newspaper La Tribunesaid five were killed on Thursday as they were on their way to the woods in the Bentalha district.

The other three were said to have been killed in an explosion in Sidi-Moussa suburb.

The paper also reported the discovery of ten bodies in a state of advanced decomposition in a well in the Mitidja region.

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