Algerian army stops planned attack
ALGIERS, Algeria – An Algerian official says that security forces have killed 21 armed Islamic extremists who were meeting in a forest to plan an attack on the Algerian capital.
The official said that two others were captured in the assault Tuesday on the group meeting in the Boukram forest in Boumerdes, some 20 kilometers from Algiers. A dozen Kalashnikovs, three rocket launchers and dozens of homemade bombs were recovered.
It was the deadliest assault on extremists in recent times in Algeria where al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb carries out sporadic attacks east of Algiers.
Remains ID’d from alpine plane crash
PARIS –The remains of all 150 victims of the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps will be turned over to their families for burial now that investigators have completed the process of identifying them.
Marseille Prosecutor Brice Robin said Tuesday that death certificates for everyone aboard the doomed Airbus A320 jet have been signed and turned over to officials at German airline Lufthansa, parent company of the low-cost airline.
Authorities say co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed the Barcelona-Duesseldorf flight into a mountain but are still puzzling over why. Investigators say Lubitz, who had suffered from suicidal tendencies and depression in the past, locked the captain out of the plane’s cockpit on March 24 and sent the Airbus hurtling into a mountain, killing everyone on board.
Not a single intact body was found.
Associated Press
