France has confirmed one of its citizens had been killed in Algeria, a day after two tourists were shot dead by coast guards after drifting across the maritime border shared with Morocco.
Officials says two holidaymakers had been killed after straying across the border into Algerian waters on jet skis, near the popular Moroccan beach resort of Saidia.
The two were among four men who set off from Saidia with three jet skis on Tuesday. Three of them were French-Moroccan dual nationals, while the fourth man was a Moroccan citizen living in France.
Two of the dual nationals reportedly decided to swim to shore after running out of petrol at dusk. One landed on a Moroccan beach while the other set foot on Algerian territory, where he was detained by local authorities.
The incident comes as tensions are high between Rabat and Algiers, stoked by a long-running dispute over the Western Sahara territory.
The border between the two countries has been closed since 1994, and Algeria broke off diplomatic ties in August 2021, accusing Morocco of "hostile acts" – a decision Rabat called completely unjustified.
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