Algerian explosion

04 August 2008 - 02:00
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TIZI OUZOU - Twenty-one people, including six policemen, were killed when a car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers,

TIZI OUZOU - Twenty-one people, including six policemen, were killed when a car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers,

The blast happened in Tizi Ouzou, the main town in the mountainous Berberspeaking Kabylie region of northern Algeria yesterday, the interior ministry said.

The explosion left a big crater in the road beside the police station and damaged nearby buildings. - Reuters