Algeria's Bouteflika likely to return home as protests intensify

Devdiscourse News Desk | Algeria

Updated: 10-03-2019 15:01 IST | Created: 10-03-2019 14:29 IST

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An Algerian government plane landed at Geneva's Cointrin airport on Sunday after a source in Algiers said President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was expected to return home after two weeks in the Swiss city's main hospital.

A Reuters witness saw the Gulfstream executive jet, the one which had brought him to Geneva on Feb. 24, touch down at the airport amid a heavy police presence. There was no immediate sign of an ambulance or cortege carrying the 82-year-old Bouteflika.

(With inputs from agencies.)

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