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At least 33 wounded in terrorist attack in Algeria
Aug 14, 2011, 17:25 GMT
Algiers - At least 33 people were wounded in a suicide attack Sunday in eastern Algeria, the El Watan newspaper reported online.
The attack took place at a police station in the centre of the city of Tizi Ouzou, about 110 kilometres east of the capital Algiers. Among the injured were 11 policemen and four Chinese nationals.
Algeria has a history of Islamist violence. More than 100,000 people were killed in a bloody civil war between the state and Islamist militants in the 1990s.
Although the violence has eased, there has been a series of attacks recently, which the state blames on al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), a terrorist group formed out of the remnants of a group that fought in the civil war. The group was known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
Ongoing protests this year calling for political and social change have weakened the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
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