A car bomb exploded in a town east of the Algerian capital Algiers today in the second such attack in a month, security sources said.
One report said the targets in Thenia, 55km east of Algiers were two buildings serving as police offices.
The blast occurred less than a month after attackers drove an explosives-laden car into a police station in the town of Naciria, about 120km east of Algiers on January 2nd, killing four policemen and wounding 20 people.
Al-Qaeda's north African wing claimed that attack, as well as a double bombing in Algiers that killed at least 41 people on December 11th, including 17 United Nations staff.
The north African Opec member country is recovering from more than a decade of violence that began in 1992 when the then army-backed government scrapped legislative elections that a radical Islamic party was poised to win. The authorities had feared an Islamic revolution.
Up to 200,000 people are estimated to have been killed.
