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ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Five security officials and a civilian were killed in a militant ambush of a town in eastern Algeria, media reports said Wednesday.
A report in Liberte daily said a group of militants on Monday swarmed a neighborhood in the town of Henchir El-Hoshas — some 373 miles east of the capital, Algiers — entering one of the houses and slitting the throat of a 50-year-old occupant.
Security forces arriving on the scene were caught in a booby trap, and five died as homemade bombs and mines set by the militants detonated as they entered the neighborhood, the report said.
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