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Saudi border guards killed in attack

January 5, 2015

Saudi border guards killed in attack

 

Attackers have killed two Saudi Arabian border guards and injured another near the country’s border with Iraq in a shooting and suicide assault, the Saudi Interior Ministry said.

The attackers opened fire on a border patrol near the city of Arar on early on Monday, the ministry said.

When security officers responded, one of the attackers was captured and detonated an explosives belt, the ministry added in a brief statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

It said another attacker was killed by security forces but did not specify the number of assailants.

Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, covering the conflict in Iraq, said the attack was likely to be carried out by fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), that controls large parts of Iraq and Syria.

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‘Scores dead’ in Burundi clashes – Africa – Al Jazeera English

January 4, 2015

‘Scores dead’ in Burundi clashes – Africa – Al Jazeera English.

At least 100 people have been killed after a cross-border attack against the central African nation of Burundi from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), AFP news agency reports quoting a military source.

A general in the Burundian army, speaking on condition of anonymity on Sunday, said the raid by the unidentified group had been thwarted after five days of heavy fighting in the border area north of the capital Bujumbura.

“After five days of non-stop military operations, the armed group which attacked Burundi has been wiped out by our security forces. In total, we killed 105 of them and captured four, out of a total of the 121 who entered Cibitoke province from the DRC,” the general said.

“We also seized a 60mm mortar, five rocket launchers, machine guns and more than 100 assault rifles.”

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