ALGIERS (Reuters) - Sixty-seven people were killed when two car bombs exploded in upscale districts of Algiers on Tuesday, a health ministry source said, in the bloodiest attack since an undeclared civil war in the 1990s.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but commentators said it appeared the work of al Qaeda's north Africa wing, which claimed a similar bombing in downtown Algiers in April and other blasts east of the capital over the summer that have worried foreign investors in the OPEC member state.
The White House, concerned by Islamist militancy in north Africa, described the attackers as "enemies of humanity".
At least one United Nations employee was killed and 13 were missing, U.N. officials said.
One of Tuesday's blasts struck near the Constitutional Court building in Ben Aknoun district and the other close to the U.N. offices and a police station in Hydra, both areas where several Western companies have their offices.
Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said a suicide attacker appeared to have detonated the Hydra bomb.
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New York Times has compiled a timeline of militant attacks in North Africa leading up to these twin car bomb attacks.
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