ISLAMIC extremists massacred 14 members of the same family overnight after attacking their home in north-western Algeria as they slept. The assailants raided the house of an agricultural worker in the isolated hamlet of Ouled Amrane, and killed six women, four children and four men, setting about them with axes and knives as well as using guns, before setting fire to the house and then fleeing into the mountains. One eight-year-old girl almost managed to escape, taking her school satchel with her, but was caught by the gang who shot her in the head and then slit her throat. – AFP