Dakar — Police in Mauritania raided early Tuesday morning a block of apartments in a northern suburb of Nouakchott, in a bid to arrest alleged Islamists who the day before put a fierce resistance to the security forces killing at least one of them.
A second person was reported dead during the clashes on Monday evening, in what appears as a continuation of last year's upsurge of violence attributed to "Salafist" groups (Islamic extremists), allegedly linked to Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaeda network.
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