{{Fourteen Algerian soldiers were killed and a dozen wounded when they fell into an ambush in the restive Kabylie region east of Algiers, security sources said on Sunday.}}<\/p>\n
Eleven soldiers were killed instantly, and another three later died of their wounds, national news agency APS quoted one security source as saying.<\/p>\n
“A convoy of the People’s National Army [ANP] that was returning from an operation to secure Thursday’s presidential election was surprised by a large terrorist group that had laid an ambush for it” at Iboudrarene, the source said.<\/p>\n
Troops “immediately launched a search operation to find the attackers\u201d, the same source added.<\/p>\n
Another security source told reporters that a dozen soldiers were also wounded in the ambush, and that reinforcements had been dispatched to the area.<\/p>\n
The attackers laid the ambush on a main road between two villages in the mountainous region where Islamist militants who battled the army during the civil war in the 1990s still operate.<\/p>\n
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has also attacked security forces there.<\/p>\n
But the defence ministry said on Sunday that nearby “Boumerdes-Tizi Ouzou-Bouira road remains the area where anti terrorist operations have had the most significant results” in the first third of 2014.<\/p>\n
Thirty-seven militants were killed by troops across Algeria during the first quarter of the year, included 21 in Kabylie, the statement said, calling the fighters “terrorists”.<\/p>\n
Sunday’s attack came after ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term last week in an election marred by low turnout and allegations of fraud, with his main rival rejecting the result.<\/p>\n
Discontent with the 77-year-old Bouteflika was most evident in Kabylie, where about 70 people were wounded in clashes on Thursday between police and youths seeking to disrupt the vote.<\/p>\n
– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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