Sunday, February 19, 2012

Algeria: four people killed in a bomb explosion in Boumerdes

العربية: الخريطة الهجائية للجزائر. English: Or...
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ALGIERS, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and nine others injured Sunday in a roadside bomb explosion in Boumerdes province, 50 km east of the Algerian capital Algiers.

The local radio quoted a security source as saying that the roadside bomb exploded on the national road 12, on the point linking the localities of Isser and Bordj Menaiel, east of Boumerdes.

The source added that the bomb exploded when a bus that was behind a military patrol passed by, leaving four people dead and nine others injured.

The injured were evacuated immediately to a hospital in the nearby locality of Thnia, while the national road 12 has been temporally blocked.

Meanwhile, the local El Watan newspaper has quoted a source as saying that the bomb was likely a remote controlled one, which blew off in distance when a military convoy passed by, adding that gunshots were heard after the explosion. The newspaper said a soldier in civil uniform in the bus was killed.
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