ALGIERS - It 's very high and will increase the tension in Algeria to protest against rising prices of food staples, which began last Tuesday and it literally exploded yesterday in a country where the population, according to data from the International Monetary Fund, is to 75% less than 30 years and 20% of young people are unemployed.After the first victim of events, an eighteen year old killed by a bullet exploded in Ain Lahdjel by an agent in the region of M'Sila, 300 kilometers southeast of Algiers, El Watan writes as online, a second young man deceased in the same locality as a result of gunshot wounds reported yesterday afternoon.
From local sources we learn of the third victim, a man of 32 who was killed in clashes with police in Bou Smail, a town 50 km west of the capital, where police opened fire to prevent Protesters storm the post office and a government building. PHOTOS OF DISORDERS - THE VIDEO According to residents of Bou Smail, man died of gunshot, but it could also have been hit by a canister of tear gas.
The coroner's inquiries, ANSA specifies a source who requested anonymity, are still ongoing. Bou Smail was the scene yesterday of particularly violent clashes, in which some twenty officers were injured. Of the two victims speak the press and local sources, their death is not confirmed by government in the press.
The Ministry of the Interior, Dahou Ould Kable, in an interview with the newspaper Algerie News has compiled a partial account of just talking about more than 150 police officers injured during the clashes. The number of officers injured, the minister added, "is more important than that of young demonstrators wounded." For the minister, also did not protest as a political "do not have the support of the people." The riots were particularly violent in Algiers.
After praying in the mosques in the capital hundreds of youths threw stones and bottles at the police. The protests have spread in the evening in many other cities across the country, despite appeals for calm pronounced by the imams. And the clashes have followed all last night.
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