The body of a Moroccan man killed by the Algerian coastguard this summer, after crossing the border on a jet ski, was returned to his family, their lawyers said on Thursday. "After around four months of urgent attempts, the body of the deceased Abdelali Mchiouer was returned to his family, and to all those who loved him in Morocco and abroad," lawyers Hakim Cherki and Ghizlane Mouhtaram said in a statement.
Algeria's defence ministry said on Sunday its coastguard fired warning shots before firing directly at a man on a jet ski who entered Algerian waters, in an incident that a survivor said left two dead.