ALGERIA: AT LEAST 10 ARE KILLED AND DOZENS WOUNDED AFTER BOMB EXPLODES NEAR A MARKET

Record ID: 358472

  • Title: ALGERIA: AT LEAST 10 ARE KILLED AND DOZENS WOUNDED AFTER BOMB EXPLODES NEAR A MARKET
  • Date: 31st August 1998
  • Summary: ALGIERS, ALGERIA (AUGUST 31, 1998) (RTV) 1. SLV ZOOM OUT BAB-EL-OUED MARKET WHERE BOMB WENT OFF /CROWDED STREET 0.05 2. SLV SHOP SIGN / SCU BROKEN WINDOWS/ HOLE IN PAVEMENT TILT UP ONLOOKERS (3 SHOTS) 0.16 3. SLV STORE FRONT DAMAGED 0.23 4. LAS TILT DOWN CROWDED STREETS / PASSING MAN WITH BANDAGED LEG LIMPING (3 SHOTS) 0.44 5. SCU
  • Embargoed: 15th September 1998 13:00
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  • Location: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
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  • Country: Algeria
  • Reuters ID: LVA1TYLH3ODASEE6TLNRNIO6B95G
  • Story Text: At least 10 people have been killed and dozens wounded after a bomb exploded near a market in central Algiers, Algeria's security forces said.

    The official APS news agency said on Monday (August 31) that according to preliminary reports 10 people were killed and dozens more others were injured.

    "Parts of mutilated bodies and blood are everywhere.The damage is huge.It was a powerful bomb," a resident of Bab El Oued in central Algiers told Reuters by telephone.

    "We heard at least 12 people have been killed," she added.

    APS did not say who was responsible for Monday's blast, the latest in a series of bomb attacks blamed by the authorities on Moslem rebels in which dozens have been killed in August.

    "Rescue and security services rushed immediately to the scene to give necessary aid to victims of this criminal act," APS said.

    The Arabic daily El Khabar said on Monday one person was killed and two others injured when a bomb exploded on Sunday near a fountain in Sidi Alki Shrif, 500 km (310 miles) west of Algiers.

    The same newspaper said security forces shot dead two Moslem rebels in Constantine, 350 km (220 miles) east of Algiers.

    At least 14 people were killed and 46 wounded on August 20 when a huge explosion ripped through an open air market in a village near Ain Defla, while seven people died and 11 others injured in a bomb attack on a passenger train passing through the province a week earlier.

    Algeria has been racked by violence since early 1992 when the authorities cancelled a general election in which Islamists had taken a commanding lead.More than 65,000 people have been killed since then, according to Western estimates.


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