location: Attouche
notes: Algerian security forces have killed five Islamists on Monday evening and Tuesday in a raid on the village of Attouche, in the Makouda area, Among those killed were Badache Said, 39, who led the Ibn el-Moqafa militia, and Nouali Hamza, both of whom were handed death sentences in absentia last week along with 33 others, including Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb chief Abdelmalek Droukdel.
target_text: location: Attouche, fatalities: 2