Bomb targeting bridge near Skikda defused

Ech Chourouk: Security forces defuse a bomb primed to explode by remote control placed on a bridge on a road linking the villages of Hadj Ali and Chaabet Oum-ed-Dou in the municipality of El Ouedjla Bou Bellout in the mountains above Skikda. The army has been conducting a sweep of the eastern Skikda area lately, including the Sidi Mansour forest, the Djenane et-Teffah mountains, and the border with the wilaya of Jijel.