Morocco summons Algerian ambassador on shooting at border

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Morocco has summoned the Algerian ambassador in Rabat to vigorously condemn the shooting in the face of a Moroccan in a village on the border near the eastern city of Oujda.

A statement of the Moroccan government said on Saturday that the Algerian forces fired on a group of ten Moroccans in a village in the border village of Oulad saleh and seriously injured one of them in the face.

The Moroccan government considered this act as very dangerous and summoned the Algerian ambassador to denounce it, the statement said, adding that this irresponsible act which is added to other provocative actions noticed recently at the level of the borders.

The borders between the two North African countries are closed since 1994 from the Algerian side following a terrorist attack that killed two people in the Moroccan resort Marrakech. Endi

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