location: Tamanrasset
notes: On 25 June 2018, Associated Press published a story which says that in the last 14 months around 13000 sub-saharan African migrants were brought to the middle of the desert where Algerian police showed them the way to Niger. Two migrants told AP that gendarmes fired on groups to force them to walk. There are reports of several deaths. 14 VAC events coded with 10 fatalities spread across the events.
target_text: location: Tamanrasset, fatalities: 1