2010-02-25
Colonel Ali Tounsi gunned down in his office when he was apparently overcome by fit of madness.
ALGIERS - A policeman shot dead Algeria's national police chief during a blazing row in his office in central Algiers on Thursday, the interior ministry said.
Colonel Ali Tounsi was gunned down around 10:45 am (0945 GMT) when the official was "apparently overcome by a fit of madness," the ministry said in a statement.
The police chief returned fire, seriously injuring the killer, but later died of his wounds, it said.
The gunman was now being treated in hospital while an inquiry had been opened into the circumstances behind the killing, the statement added.
Source: Middle East Online.
Link: http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=37494.
Colonel Ali Tounsi gunned down in his office when he was apparently overcome by fit of madness.
ALGIERS - A policeman shot dead Algeria's national police chief during a blazing row in his office in central Algiers on Thursday, the interior ministry said.
Colonel Ali Tounsi was gunned down around 10:45 am (0945 GMT) when the official was "apparently overcome by a fit of madness," the ministry said in a statement.
The police chief returned fire, seriously injuring the killer, but later died of his wounds, it said.
The gunman was now being treated in hospital while an inquiry had been opened into the circumstances behind the killing, the statement added.
Source: Middle East Online.
Link: http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=37494.
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