LONDON Oct 9 Algerian security forces killed 25 members of an Islamic mill tant group in the western region of Sldi Bel Abbes on Saturday Algerian radio re ported, says Reuter

The radio, monitored by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), said late on Sunday that the dead were members of a group led by Akai Mohamed Rachld

It quoted a statement issued by the security forces as saying that those killed had been operating in the Sldi Bel Abbes area and in Hem cen where they had been behind numerous assassina tions and acts of sabotage

More than 40.000 people have died in political violence in Algeria since January 1992