Lynchings, Beatings Continue In Algeria

Press, Volume C, Issue 29682, 28 November 1961, Page 20

Lynchings, Beatings Continue In Algeria

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AIXSUStS. NoveaVer 38. Anety Eurapeane today lyrxfoed a Modem and beet up and eeriouafr wounds! two Moaiien women in an at&ack on a police station in Algkem Ttria was the second lynching in two days. Loot nstfM white youltie in Oran lynched a Moslem and etoned to death three others in retaMetion for the shooting of a 22-yesr-old European. Today’o incident flared up after a Moslem was seen pasting a grenade to a Moslem woman accompanied by a 19-year-oM Moslem girL A shouting crowd collected and attacked the Moslem while the two women sought refuge in a nearby police station. As they did so the srenade exploded, blowing oft one of the girl’s fw-nrig At the sound of the exp&o tions the crowd left the Moslem dead in toe road and stormed the police station. Some of them reached toe women and were beating them up when mobile gendarmerie reinforcements arrived and broke up the deThe two women were rushed to hospital, where their conditfion was stated to be grave. Week-end Toll The total casualty roll in Algerian towns over the week-end now stands at 10 dead and 60 injured. Twentyfour persons were injured in seven attacks in a 90-minute period in Algiers alone last night. Two Europeans and one

Moslem were shot and wounded in other Algiers street incidents today. ■ About 15 ptaotir bombs ex. jdoded in the Algtei* area during toe niV* and at Constantine, Eastern Algeria, U persons were wounded tn a series of grenade expflookms test night. Violencs In Oran Two Modems died and deven Modems and one European were injured in a freah outbreak of violence st toe western Algerian part of Oran today, according to official casualty figures. The bodies of two Europeans, apparently beaten to death with their arms and legs tied, were found today at Miwerghin, a vilage 12 melee from Oren. Inctdents flared in several | parts of the town aa Europeans seeking revenge picked on Modems at random and sacked Modem market stalls. In Nice, on the French Riviera, a Modem gunman today killed a proferaicml Algerian Modem boxer and seriously wounded a fellow boxer as they were about to enter a bar in toe .centre of toe town. The gunman escaped.