Carnage At An Algerian Police Academy -- 43 Dead

Algerians inspect the site of a bomb blast outside a police station in Zemmouri el Bahri on August 10.The interior ministry has said that 43 people were killed and 38 injured in a deadly suicide attack on an Algerian police school in Issers. (AFP/File/Stringer)

Suicide Attack At Algerian Police Academy
Kills 43 -- Yahoo News/AFP

ALGIERS, Algeria - A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-rigged car into a police academy as applicants lined up to register for classes, killing at least 43 people, Algeria's Interior Ministry said. It was one of the deadliest attacks in recent years in the North African country.

The ministry said in a statement that the toll of 43 dead and 38 injured was a "preliminary estimate" for the attack early Tuesday in the Les Issers district of Boumerdes, some 35 miles east of the capital, Algiers.

Witnesses said all roads within two miles of Les Issers were blocked and cell phone networks were scrambled as police closed off the area.

A security official at the school told The Associated Press that the attack occurred as young applicants were in line, waiting to register at the local police academy.

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My Comment: On the same day 13 members of Algeria's security force were killed. An Islamic uprising in the 1990s resulted in 100,000 killed and many more fleeing the country. The big fear is that this is an opening shot in restarting this civil war. Having 56 policemen and soldiers killed on one day .... with many more wounded .... tells me that a civil war is just around the corner.