Die Another protester in the riots that shook Algeria

The riots that shook Algeria on Tuesday to have left two policemen dead and 320 wounded, confirmed today the Minister of Interior, Dahou Ould Kabli. On the death of Azzedine Lebza, shot yesterday when he tried to break-ins at the headquarters of the prefecture in Msila, has joined other young today seriously injured in Bousmail, 50 kilometers west of the capital.

Meanwhile, protests continue against the skyrocketing cost of food, reports "has died in hospital, the victim of his wounds", he explained the minister, who has yet to be added to clarify the causes of death. According to media, the victim is a man of 32 years. Although the official count is two dead, the newspaper El Watan talk of a third victim died in hospital in Algiers Mustafa after receiving a gunshot wound Monday afternoon in Ain El Hedjal in Msila.

The Arabic-language daily Echourouk today published an account of the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued according to which there are 181 injured by the security forces and 245 arrested during the demonstrations. In the same account, which has not been confirmed, said the clashes, which began on Tuesday in Oran, western Algeria's capital, has spread to 18 provinces of 48 that is Algeria, Efe reported.

The same newspaper reproduced a statement by the Minister of Interior, under which research is underway to determine who "have caused riots, and calls them" enemies of the Interior. " Ould Kabli has said that security forces have been ordered not to use real fire "regardless of the circumstances" and to avoid possible clashes with protesters.

According to witnesses cited by, today there have been protests in Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia in the Kabylie region in eastern Algeria, considered a stronghold of insurgents from Al Qaeda in the Maghreb. Regimes of Algeria and Tunisia yesterday tightened security and turned to the arrests to try to defuse street protests that erupted Tuesday in major Algerian cities, but its last eastern neighbor and, intermittently, for more than three weeks.

The owner of Trade Algerian Mustapha Benben, announced that Saturday will be a special interministerial council dedicated to examining how to tackle the rising price of staples. Although the minister did not mention the unrest, the sharp rise in oil, sugar, etc., was the cause presented by unemployed young people into the street.

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