Algeria: Terror group kidnaps and kills mayor
ALGIERS, Algeria The Algerian Interior Ministry says a terrorist group has kidnapped and killed the mayor of a town east of Algiers.
A ministry relation Thursday says that Mayor Fateh Bouchibane was abducted slow Wednesday by a group it did not distinction. Bouchibane was the mayor of Timezrit, in the Kabylie region some 260 kilometers (160 miles) east of the capital.
The ministry says security forces found the mayor’s burned car and discovered his corpse after a search.
Most terrorist acts in Algeria are blamed on Islamist insurgents. The extremists have increased attacks against management targets since formally linking up with al-Qaida in 2006 and calling themselves al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa.
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