The Oued Bouaïcha massacre took place about 150 miles (240 km) south of Algiers, near Djelfa, on March 26, 1998, during the Algerian Civil War. Forty-seven people, including 27 children under the age of sixteen, were killed at Oued Bouaïcha in the municipality of Bouire Lahdab, near Had Sahary, by about fifteen men carrying axes and knives, who also kidnapped three young women. On the same day, another eleven people were killed on the other side of the country at Youb. See also List of massacres in Algeria References External links Irish Examiner ANB-BIA ChannelAfrica Conflicts in 1998 Algerian massacres of the 1990s 1998 in Algeria Massacres in 1998 March 1998 events in Africa