Three killed in police station bombings
Two bombs exploded this morning in two booby-trapped vehicles at police stations outside Algiers, the capital of Algeria, killing three people, one a woman, injuring 24 others and damaging the buildings and nearby cars, the national police said.
Rescue officials had said that two police officers died in the bombings, one at each station.
However, the official statement said only that one of the three victims was a woman.
The attacks – 10 minutes apart – at the police station in Reghaia then in Dergana appeared to be co-ordinated, although the statement did not specify whether they might be linked.
Police noted, however, that in each case stolen vehicles had been booby-trapped.
“A search operation was immediately launched to identify and arrest the attackers,” the national police said.
An armed group attacked the police station in Reghaia, 18 miles east of Algiers, throwing a grenade that triggered an exchange of automatic rifle fire, according to accounts by rescue workers and witnesses.
