Algeria: Bomb Blast Kills Seven In Algiers Market

Record ID: 4001

  • Title: Algeria: Bomb Blast Kills Seven In Algiers Market
  • Date: 9th July 1998
  • Summary: A bomb has ripped through a crowded market in a poor district of Algiers, killing seven people and wounding 24. Residents of the Oued Kenich district said the bomb had been hidden in a black bag and exploded at 0730 GMT on the morning of July 9 at a flea market. Security forces said in a brief radio statement that eight of the wounded were in critical condition. The blast occurred one day after the security forces said troops shot dead seven Moslem rebels in a forest in Bouzareah, on the heights of Algiers. The explosion was the latest in a series of recent bombings in or near the Algerian capital, a city of about 3. 5 million people. Meanwhile protesters rallied against a new law requiring the use of Arabic in a wide variety of official communications.
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  • Location: ALGERIA ALGIERS
  • Reuters ID: LDL001293GHNV
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