Algeria accuses Morocco of fatal attack on three truck drivers
The Algerian presidency said the killing of the three Algerian truck drivers in a roadside bombing on Monday "will not go unpunished."
Algeria blamed Morocco on Wednesday for a roadside bombing that killed three Algerian truck drivers, an accusation leveled amid mounting tensions between the North African neighbors over disputed Western Sahara.
On Monday, “Three Algerian nationals were cowardly murdered after their trucks were barbarically bombarded,” read a statement from the Algerian presidency carried by the Algerian Press Service state news agency.
The truckers were reportedly driving on a road linking the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, to the Algerian city of Ouargla. Algerian website Mena Defense, which published a video showing the burned trucks, reported that the incident took place between the towns of Ain Bentili and Bir Lahlou.
“Several factors pointed to Morocco’s occupation forces in Western Sahara as having committed this cowardly murder with sophisticated weaponry,” the Algerian statement said. “Their murder will not go unpunished.”
