Six Algerian security guards killed in ambush

 
Residents say armed group attacked private security guards in Algeria's Kabylie region.

 
ALGIERS - An armed group on Thursday killed at least six private security guards in an ambush in the Kabylie region east of the capital, residents said.

The group of guards were on their way to pick up employees of the Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin when they were attacked 25 kilometres (16 miles) south of Tizi Ouzou.

Six of the guards were killed instantly, one was seriously wounded while another was unaccounted for, the sources said.

In the past such attacks have been blamed on Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which emerged out of the Algerian fundamentalist Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.

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