A car bombing today killed at least eight people near a military base south-east of the Algerian capital, Algiers.
The attack happened in the town of Lakhdaria, 48 miles south-east of Algiers in the unstable region of Kabylie, according to Algerian media reporting from the scene. No other details were immediately available. The bombing came on the opening day of the Africa Games, one of the continent's biggest sporting events, which is taking place in Algiers and also in Blida and Boumerdes, two towns in Kabylie.
It was the latest in several attacks in recent months in Algeria, which has been trying to suppress an Islamic insurgency that has killed as many as 200,000 people, mostly in the 1990s.
Exactly three months ago, double suicide bombings in the capital killed 30 people. An extremist group called al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa, formerly the GSPC, claimed responsibility for that and other attacks.
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AQIM has not claimed responsibility for this attack yet.....
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