Three attacks by Islamists have left five security forces killed and over 20 injured. A suicide bomb truck attack on a military patrol left four soldiers dead and twenty others wounded in Zemmouri. Islamists attacked a police station in the provincial capital Tizi Ouzou. Islamists killed one police officer and wounded seven civilians in the city of Ain Defla. Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the failed suicide bomb attack in Mauritania.
