Sidi-Hamed massacre

When

11 Jan 1998

Kind

Massacre

Deaths

103

Coordinates

28.00° N, 1.00° E

Description

Massacre in 1998

Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.

January 1998 massacre in northern Algeria

The Sidi-Hamed massacre took place on the night of January 11, 1998, in the town of Sidi-Hamed, 30 km south of Algiers. An estimated fifty gunmen participated, attacking children and adults; they bombed a café where films were being watched and a mosque in nearby Haouche Sahraoui, killing those who fled, and entered houses to kill those within.

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