An armed group killed 10 people and wounded nine in a port town near Oran in western Algeria, security services said Sunday, a day after the bloodshed.
The victims were attacked in the town of Arzew during Muslim prayers at dusk on Saturday, said the sources, adding that the attackers were among those injured.
The massacre was one of the worst to occur in years in the Oran region, some 450 kilometres (270 miles) west of Algiers.
Algeria's civil war has claimed at least 100,000 lives since 1992, when the army cancelled elections that the now outlawed Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) was certain to win -- ALGIERS (AFP)
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