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Jewish Girl Killed, Three Seriously Injured in Terror Acts in Algeria

April 7, 1961
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Two new outrages against Jews in Algeria, one of them causing the death of a 17-year-old girl, were reported here today.

A typewriter shop owned by a Jew in the center of Algiers was the target of a bomb which demolished the front of the store. A girl, Michele Taies, was killed by a grenade blast in Constantine while she was walking with her two sisters and a friend, Maurice Zerbib. The sisters and Mr. Zerbib, who is well known in Constantine Jewish circles, were seriously injured.

Pro-French extremists were believed to be responsible for these and other recent attacks on Jews and Jewish property.

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