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Algeria: 43 dead in the deadliest attack since eight months
9 hours ago ALGIERS (AFP) -
The latest provisional results, heavy, Department of the Interior, 42 civilians and one policeman were killed while 32 civilians and 13 policemen were injured in the attack which had not been claimed Tuesday end of the afternoon.
Witnesses contacted by AFP, a suicide bomber ran his car loaded with explosives against the main entrance of the building, where university applicants awaiting the call to participate in an entrance to this school training of police Issers, about sixty miles from Algiers.
The facade of the school blowing, trees uprooted, shattered the windows of stores, the rubble of collapsed houses, showed the power of the explosion which was heard several miles away and has widened a crater several meters in diameter, witnesses said.
The results of this attack is heavier than the double suicide bombing in Algiers on December 11 against the seat of the Constitutional Council and two United Nations buildings, which had killed 41 people and claimed by the Branch of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Baqmi, former Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat - GSPC), a branch of the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden.
The Interior Minister, Yazid Zerhouni, visited by helicopter to the scene where the mangled bodies of several young candidates gendarmes were collected and quickly wrapped in blankets before being placed in ambulances. "It is an act committed against the Algerians," Zerhouni said in the press.
few hours after the attack, the founder and former leader of the GSPC, Hassan Hattab, for his part called on Islamist maquis and those tempted to join them to "renounce the armed struggle and surrender."
The attack came after an ambush on Sunday by armed Islamist groups against a convoy of security forces in Skikda (east) at the end of which eight policemen, three soldiers, one civilian and four terrorists were killed, according newspaper Le Quotidien d'Oran, L'Expression and Freedom. A dozen members of security forces were also wounded by the press.
Thursday, the commander of military region, Colonel Abdelkader Yamani, was killed in an ambush in the same mountainous area overlooking the city of Skikda, 350 km east of Algiers.
Twelve Islamists had been killed in an ambush by security forces near Beni Douala, in Kabylia (110 km east of Algiers), in the night at 7 to 8 August, in response to an attack against Islamist the commissioner of general information which had Tizi Ouzou on Aug. 3 25 wounded. This upsurge
Islamist attacks attributed by the Algerian press and experts in the fight against terrorism to the will of the "emirs" (Islamic leaders) to expand their activities beyond a "quadrilateral of death" formed by Algiers Boumerdes, Tizi Ouzou and Bouira (east) to loosen the stranglehold of the army on their groups entrenched in Kabylie.
The French presidency of the European Union (EU) "very strongly" condemned the recent attacks in Algeria and reiterated its support to the Algerian authorities "in their fight against terrorism."
Just as Rome, Berlin and Madrid, President French President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned "with the utmost force" attacks speaking of "barbaric and blind violence
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