Algerian troops kill 3 militants in Bouira

Algerian army forces on Friday killed three armed militants in the heights of the province of Bouira, 120 km east of Algiers, local media reports.
Citing a security source, Alhadath news website reported that the army troops ambushed and killed three armed men in the upper woods of Lakhdaria locality, in the province of Bouira, while two kalashnikovs and a seminov guns were retrieved. The source specified that forensics are working on identifying the dead bodies.
On Thursday, the Defense Ministry said it raided a camp used that sheltered the Islamic State (IS) linked group who assassinated a Frenchman last month in eastern Algiers.
The army troops launched a massive search and combing operation around the camp in the upper mountains of the adjacent provinces of Tizi Ouzou and Bouira, 120 km east of Algiers, since the abduction of the French national on September 21.
The Defense Ministry said the search and dragging operations in the Djurdjura mountain are still underway, reiterating its determination and commitment to fight those "criminals" until their complete eradication.
The government said a few militants affiliated to al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and recently established IS affiliate group of Caliphate Soldiers are still taking refuge in the woods of central provinces of Boumerdes, Tizi Ouzou and Bouira.