TUNIS (Reuters) - Tunisian police killed two Islamist militants in clashes near the Algerian border, the interior and defences ministries said on Wednesday, after Tunis raised the security alert level before elections next month.
Since April, thousands of troops have been deployed in Tunisia's mountainous Chaambi region on the border with Algeria, where Islamist fighters - some of them linked to al Qaeda - have taken refuge.
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