Sid El-Antri massacre
| Algerian massacres in 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Massacres in which over 50 people were killed: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
1998 → | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Sid El-Antri massacre took place on the night of 23–24 December 1997 in two small villages near Tiaret, Algeria. The death toll is unclear; Reuters cites "at least 80", or 48 according to the government, Le Jeune Independent says 117 people were killed and 11 abducted by terrorists, and a timeline gives 53 (including 15 children) killed in Sidi el-Antri (or Sidi el-Antar, Sidi Lamri) and 28 in Shari. On the same day, 11 were killed further away in the area near Algiers. A few days later, another 26 civilians were killed in the , also near Tiaret.
See also[]
References[]
 | This article includes a list of references, related reading or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations. (November 2016) |
External links[]
  | This Algerian history-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
 | This massacre-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
Categories:
- Algerian massacres of the 1990s
- Massacres in 1997
- 1997 in Algeria
- Conflicts in 1997
- December 1997 events in Africa
- Algerian history stubs
- Massacre stubs