Algerian suicide attack kills 10
Twelve people were killed and at least 37 injured in Algeria today when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the middle of a crowd awaiting a visit by the country’s president, security officials said.
The attack hit the town of Batna, about 280 miles east of the capital, Algiers, the officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Co-ordinated terror attacks killed dozens of people on April 11, when bombs ripped through the Algerian prime minister's office and a police station in an Algiers suburb.
Al-Qaida's wing in North Africa claimed responsibility for the bombings, saying they were carried out by suicide bombers in trucks packed with explosives.
The bombings were a devastating setback for the North African nation's efforts to close a violent chapter in its history - an Islamic insurgency that has killed 200,000 people.
