Twenty seven people were killed since Sunday in clashes between Algerian police and alleged militants with the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, Arabic weekly al-Quds al-Arabi reported Tuesday. In a major security operation Sunday in the village of Ait Mousa in the region of Kabylie, about 100 kilometres east of the capital Algiers, security officials killed 17 terror suspects. Among them was allegedly one of the leaders of the terror group, Tawat Uthman, also known as Abu al-Abbas.
One of the suspects subsequently handed himself over to police revealing where 25 militants were hiding in the area of Dira al-Mizan. Another ten people died in ensuing gunfights.
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