location: Azeffoun
notes: Gunmen have killed three policemen in an ambush in the eastern Algerian region of Kabylie and lost one of their own. A police patrol was attacked by a group of gunmen on the road to the new hospital in Azeffoun on Tuesday afternoon, some 60 kilometres (35 miles) north of the city of Tizi Ouzou.
target_text: location: Azeffoun, fatalities: 4