18 die in Arab-Berber violence in Algeria

Fifteen people wounded in clashes between Berber and Arab communities in southern Algeria have died of their injuries, raising the death toll to 18, the national news agency APS reports.

The agency, citing hospital and local officials, says dozens of other people were hurt in Tuesday’s violence between Chaamba Arabs and Mozabite Berbers in the M’zab region on the edge of the Sahara desert.

— AFP

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