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Bombing kills dozens in Algeria
A bomb at a police college east of the Algerian capital, Algiers, has killed 43 people and injured a further 38, the interior ministry says. The bombing targeted a paramilitary police training school at Issers, near Boumerdes, about 60km (40 miles) east of Algiers. An attacker drove a car full of explosives into the school’s entrance, witnesses told the AFP news agency. Algeria has suffered regular attacks blamed on militants linked to al-Qaeda. Tuesday’s attack targeted exam candidates who were waiting outside the police school, witnesses said. Civilians as well as security officials were among the victims, they added. ‘Carnage’ The bomb destroyed the entrance to the school as well as several nearby buildings. “It’s utter carnage,” the elderly father of one of those killed in the attack told AFP. “May God punish them for the crime they have committed against these youngsters, and their country,” he said, weeping. Interior Minister Yazid Zerhouni, who went to the scene surrounded by heavy security, called the bombing “an act against Algerians.”
The attack came as Algerian newspapers reported that Islamist militants had ambushed eight policemen, three soldiers and a civilian near Skikda in eastern Algeria on Sunday. Algeria has been struggling to emerge from a long civil conflict that started in 1992 when the army intervened to prevent a hardline Islamist party winning parliamentary elections. Violence has been much reduced compared with the levels of the 1990s, but there has been a surge in high profile attacks - including suicide bombings - since late 2006. In September 2006 the last significant insurgent group to survive the conflict, the Salafist Group for Call and Conflict (GSPC), confirmed an alliance with al-Qaeda. Shortly afterwards it changed its name to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. Algeria is a major exporter of oil and gas. In the most recent reported bomb attack, a suicide bomber at a beach resort killed eight people on 10 August. In December two consecutive bombings in Algiers - including one at the UN’s offices - killed at least 37 people. Those attacks were claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. No immediate claim of responsibility for Tuesday’s bombing was reported. |
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