Algerian army opens fire on Algerian living in Morocco

Algerian border guards on Sunday opened fire on an Algerian citizen living in the suburbs of the Moroccan eastern city of Oujda. The twenty-eight year old Algerian national, who works as a peasant, was injured in the thigh. He was soon transferred to Al Farabi hospital in Oujda for necessary care.

Algerian border guards on Sunday opened fire on an Algerian citizen living in the suburbs of the Moroccan eastern city of Oujda. The twenty-eight year old Algerian national, who works as a peasant, was injured in the thigh. He was soon transferred to Al Farabi hospital in Oujda for necessary care.

Some ascribe the incident, the first since a year, to the newly hired trigger-happy frontier guards who don't know well the boundary line that separates the two states.

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