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Suspected Islamic Extremists Kill 24 in Algeria VOA News 5 Feb 2002 11:12 UTC 
Algeria's official new agency reports suspected Islamic extremists have carried out three separate attacks overnight, killing at least 24 people.
The report says 13 people - all members of one family - were shot or hacked to death in the Sidi Lakhdar area of Ain Delfa province, southwest of Algiers. The head of the family was said to be a pro-government militiaman.
According to the report, nine people were killed and three others wounded in a shooting attack on a road in the same region.
The third attack took place in the Tizi Ouzou region, about 100 kilometers east of the capital, where rebels killed at least two militiamen and wounded three others.
Algeria plunged into Islamic fundamentalist related violence in early 1992, when authorities canceled a general election that radical Islamists were winning.
The government says more than 100,000 people have been killed in nearly 10 years of violence. Independent sources say the death toll is much higher.
Some information for this report provided by Reuters and AFP.
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