Béni Ounif

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Béni Ounif is a municipality in Béchar Province, Algeria, coextensive with the district of Béni Ounif. It is located 8 kilometers of Figuig, Morocco, which is inaccessible as the border between the two countries is closed. It has a population of 8.199 as of the 1998, which gives it 7 seats in the PMA.

[edit] History

The Béni Ounif massacre took place there near the Moroccan border, on 15 August 1999. Guerrillas stopped a bus at a fake roadblock and killed some 29 people. President Abdelaziz Bouteflika suggested that the terrorists in question had found shelter in Morocco, but later took back the accusation.