Amnesty condemns Algeria killings

The human rights group Amnesty International has strongly condemned the recent spate of killings of civilians in Algeria.

Noting a significant rise in the level of violence, Amnesty urged the authorities to spare no effort to investigate attacks and bring those responsible to justice.

It said that in the past week alone, more than one-hundred civilians had been killed, along with dozens of members of the security forces, state-armed militias and armed groups.

In the latest violence to be reported from Algeria, a newspaper La Tribune said eight people were killed in an attack late yesterday on a remote village in the Chlef region, two-hundred kilometres west of the capital. The paper also said that in another incident yesterday, two people were killed and more than twenty others injured in a bomb attack at Tiaret, more than three-hundred kilometres west of Algiers.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service