Algeria killings

ALGIERS - An armed Muslim fundamentalist group has killed a leader of the rival Armed Islamic Group, Abdelkader Hattab, along with his wife and nine of his aides, Algerian security officials said yesterday. The bodies of Hattab and the others, members of a hardline Islamic guerrilla movement fighting the Algerian security forces, were found buried in a cave at Djebel Bouzegza, near Algiers, the officials said. AFP