Seven security guards shot dead in Algeria

By DPA, IANS
Thursday, October 22, 2009

ALGIERS/PARIS - Seven security guards were killed early Thursday by a group of suspected Islamic extremists near the eastern city of Tizi Ouzou, local security sources said.

The victims were Algerians working for a company charged with guarding the waterworks site belonging to the Canadian public works company SNC Lavalin.

The men, all residents of the same village, were reportedly shot to death while travelling to work on a small lorry.

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