During the night of Monday-Tuesday Feb. 4-5, 2013, elements of the People’s National Army (ANP) repelled an armed terrorist group that was about to break into the military barracks in Jebel Boudoukhane, in the southern province of Khenchela, Algeria, near the Tunisian border.
The terrorists used machine guns and RPGs and were dressed in military uniforms so as not to arouse suspicion. They set up a false checkpoint near the target location and intercepted the truck that supplied the military barracks with food. They took hostage the truck’s driver and loader and drove the truck to Boudoukhane barracks to try to sneak in. The soldiers, however, realized what was going on and counterattacked. One terrorist was killed and several soldiers injured in the firefight. Those attackers who managed to escape were hunted down by the military reinforcements that came from neighboring areas to comb through the surrounding mountains.
