Casablanca — Three people, two of whom were soldiers, had their throats cut early Monday morning in a fake road block in Ain Defla, 145 kilometers away from Algiers, reports Le360.
Casablanca — Three people, two of whom were soldiers, had their throats cut early Monday morning in a fake road block in Ain Defla, 145 kilometers away from Algiers, reports Le360.
The two soldiers were headed back to their barrack late on Sunday night aboard a taxi when they stopped at what they initially thought was a security checkpoint. They were, however, surprised by an armed group that set the vehicle on fire. The attack also claimed the life of a civilian.
The victims had their throats cut before being set on fire by the alleged terrorists. Algerian authorities headed to the site as soon as they heard of the incident, but the assassins had fled the scene, reports Algerian news site “TSA.”
The incident is reminiscent of Algeria’s ‘Black Decade,’ of the 1990s during which many Algerian citizens were victims of fake roadblocks. The decade was marked by the country’s civil war against an Islamist insurgency, which claimed the lives of some 200,000 civilians.
Terrorist alert is at a high level in Eastern Algeria where intense military operations are currently underway in cities like Skikda and Constantine, where a police officer was recently killed in an attack claimed by ISIS.
