Algerian Islamic extremists kill ten in ambush
Ten people, nine of them members of a local security force, were killed in Algeria Sunday in an ambush by Islamic extremists, several independent newspapers reported. According to the reports Monday, the communal guard members were riding on a bus, unarmed and in civilian clothing, when it was ambushed by about 20 assailants on a road near El-Kassa, in the Skikda region some 500 kilometers (300 miles) east of Algiers. Full Story