Algerian hero, longtime opposition leader buried

ALGIERS, Algeria — Tens of thousands of Algerians massed in a mountain village Friday for a chaotic burial ceremony of a national hero of the brutal independence war with France.

Hocine Ait Ahmed, who spent nearly a quarter-century in exile in Europe, was buried in the village where he was born, a day after his remains arrived in Algiers, the Algerian capital. Ait Ahmed, 89, who was the country’s leading opposition figure, died Wednesday in Lausanne, Switzerland.