location: Batna
notes: This past Thursday 9 October, a group of militants threw up a false roadblock in the spot known as Zana on the Batna-Setif road. According to accounts gathered on site, it was between 2330 hours local time and midnight that the militants, whose number could not be determined, intercepted several travellers, killing two.
target_text: location: Batna, fatalities: 2