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FRANCE 24 - Soldiers killed in attack on Algerian army post
Islamist extremists attacked an army post and killed at least 13 soldiers watching the Algerian presidents televised speech promising reforms, security officials said Saturday.
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On Saturday, security forces swept areas including the Yakourene forest, a hideout of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, in a search for other suspects, the officials said.
It was the deadliest attack on security forces since July 2009, when at least 14 soldiers were reported killed in an ambush on a military convoy in Damous, near the northern coastal city of Tipaza.
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An estimated 200,000 people - insurgents, civilians and soldiers - were killed after violence erupted in 1992, when the army canceled the countrys first multiparty elections and stepped in to prevent a likely victory by a Muslim fundamentalist party.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but most attacks in Algeria are blamed on al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.