Armed groups killed nine people, six of them members of one family, in separate weekend attacks in Algeria.
One man drowned and another was missing after the crew of a Philippine-registered ship threw three Algerian stowaways into the Mediterranean Sea.
AT least 19 inmates died and six were injured when a blaze started by prisoners who torched their mattresses ripped through the Serkadji prison in the Algerian capital, state television said on Wednesday, quoting Justice Minister Ahmed Ouyahia.
An armed group machine-gunned a bus killing 11 passengers and wounding 10 at Medea, 80km south of Algiers.