Algerian Rebels Kill 26
(Rec. 9 p.m.) ALGIERS, Dec. 16. Twenty-six persons, many of them Europeans, were killed and 37 wounded in Algeria this week-end in one of the worst series of terrorist attacks since the Algerian uprising began two years ago. Four Europeans and two Moslems were killed, and 10 Europeans and three Moslems wounded in 10 attacks in Algiers and suburbs over the week-end.
Eleven policemen were killed and eight wounded when insurgents ambushed a rural police convoy near Tablat, 50 miles south of Algiers yesterday. French sources said that eight Moslem women and children were burned alive by insurgents near Medrissa, in the Oran region.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28154, 18 December 1956, Page 15
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