25 'al-Qaeda' members killed
03/03/2008 08:52  - (SA)  

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Algiers - Two Algerian newspapers said security forces killed 25 suspected members of an al-Qaeda affiliate in North Africa in a weekend operation east of the capital.

The two Arabic-language papers, Ech Chourouk and Al Djazair News, said in their Sunday editions that security forces chased some 30 Islamic insurgents planting roadside bombs on Friday night back into their refuge.

The papers, which sited unnamed, informed sources, said troops then called in helicopters and assaulted the hideout early Saturday with rockets and helicopter fire, killing 25.

There was no official confirmation of the operation between the Tizi-Ouzou and Bejaie regions.

Algeria has been fighting an Islamic insurgency since 1992.

- AP

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