43 dead in suicide attack on Algerian police school

August 20, 2008

Algiers, August 19: A suicide attack on an Algerian police school at Issers, 60 kilometres east of Algiers killed 43 people and injured 38, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.

The attacker drove a car packed with explosives at the main entrance to the school as candidates for an entry exam were waiting outside, witnesses told AFP. Civilians as well as police officers were among the victims and a major security operation was under way there, they added. The casualty figures were still provisional, the ministry said in a statement. But it is already the deadliest attack in the country in several months, worse than the December 2007 attack in Algiers against government and United Nations buildings, which killed 41 people and injured many others.

Tuesday’s attack comes as Algeria’s newspapers reported an attack on Sunday in which Islamist militants killed 11 members of the security forces and a civilian in an ambush in the country’s east.

Source: Indian Express, New Delhi

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