Deaths in Algeria suicide blast

Deaths in Algeria suicide blast

At least eight people have been killed in a sucide bombing in Algeria, local radio has reported.

Nineteen people were also injured in the blast, when a bomber rammed a van full of explosives into a police station in the northern part of the country on Saturday night.
The attack happened at Zemmouri el-Bahri, a popular beach with holidaymakers, near Boumerdes, east of the capital Algiers.
An officer fired on the vehicle as it was approaching the police station causing the car to explode before it hit the building, the local radio said citing security officials.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack.
A bombing last week at a police station in another northern city injured more than 20 people.
Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb, an al-Qeada-linked group, claimed responsibility for that attack, and said it had been a suicide car bombing.
PHOTO CAPTION
Algerian policemen secure the site of the blast carried by a suicide bomber in Algiers, June 2008.
Al-Jazeera
 

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