Algeria suicide car bomb kills six

A suicide car bomb attack on security forces killed at least six civilians east of Algiers late on Saturday.

Izvor: Reuters

Sunday, 10.08.2008.

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A suicide car bomb attack on security forces killed at least six civilians east of Algiers late on Saturday. Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni told state radio six civilians were killed and 18 injured in the attack at 10 p.m. in the coastal town of Zemmouri el Bahri, 45 km east of the capital. Algeria suicide car bomb kills six Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni told state radio six civilians were killed and 18 injured in the attack at 10 p.m. in the coastal town of Zemmouri el Bahri, 45 km east of the capital. The official APS news agency earlier put the toll at eight killed and 19 wounded. Local people said gendarmes opened fire on the bomber when he refused to stop his vehicle, and he shouted "God is Great" seconds before detonating the bomb. The radio said the bomber's targets were a coastguard barracks and an adjacent post of the paramilitary gendarmerie. Witnesses said the gendarmerie post was destroyed but the barracks were only slightly damaged. The radio reported Zerhouni as saying the bomber used between 200 and 300 kg of explosives and that the attack appeared to be retaliation for an army ambush that killed 12 rebels in mountainous Kabylie region overnight on August 7 to 8. Newspapers have said that ambush was part of the army's pursuit of rebels who orchestrated a suicide car bombing which wounded 25 people in Tizi Ouzou town east of Algiers on August 3. That attack was claimed by al Qaeda's north Africa wing, the al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday's attack.

Algeria suicide car bomb kills six

Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni told state radio six civilians were killed and 18 injured in the attack at 10 p.m. in the coastal town of Zemmouri el Bahri, 45 km east of the capital.

The official APS news agency earlier put the toll at eight killed and 19 wounded.

Local people said gendarmes opened fire on the bomber when he refused to stop his vehicle, and he shouted "God is Great" seconds before detonating the bomb.

The radio said the bomber's targets were a coastguard barracks and an adjacent post of the paramilitary gendarmerie. Witnesses said the gendarmerie post was destroyed but the barracks were only slightly damaged.

The radio reported Zerhouni as saying the bomber used between 200 and 300 kg of explosives and that the attack appeared to be retaliation for an army ambush that killed 12 rebels in mountainous Kabylie region overnight on August 7 to 8.

Newspapers have said that ambush was part of the army's pursuit of rebels who orchestrated a suicide car bombing which wounded 25 people in Tizi Ouzou town east of Algiers on August 3.

That attack was claimed by al Qaeda's north Africa wing, the al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Saturday's attack.

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