Eurasia Press & News
Algiers: Deadly clashes between Arabs and Tawareq raged on into a second week in an Algerian border town on Tuesday, with another eight people killed.
The bloodshed in Bordj Badji Mokhtar stoked fears of a spillover of violence from neighbouring Mali, where a longstanding Tawareq rebellion was overtaken by jihadists, prompting French-led international intervention earlier this year.
It is supposed that rival Arab and Tawareq militia had been involved in the fighting rocking the small garrison town in Algeria’s far-flung desert south.
Two people were killed on Monday when a man drove a 4X4 vehicle into a crowd.
Another six people were killed in the town on Sunday. In all, 23 people have died in the week-long violence between members of the Arab Brabiche and Tawareq Idnan tribes.
The government in Algiers, some 2,200km away on the Mediterranean coast, dispatched 1,500 special forces troops to try to restore order.
