A car bomb attack Sunday night killed three people and wounded at least six others in a region east of Algiers, according to the official Algerian APS news agency. In recent days there have been a spate of car and suicide bombings worldwide, including Damascus and Lebanon.
According to at least one report the three fatalities were Algerian soldiers. A suicide bomber was also killed. The attack occurred along the coast, near Dellys, a coastal town in the Takdemt district, approximately 100 kilometers east of Algiers, the capital of Algeria.
No terror group immediately claimed credit for the attack, but a group previously known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (G.S.P.C.) claimed credit for several attacks in the past, including one on a coast guard barracks actually in Dellys last September. That attack killed 37. The group has since adopted the name al Queda.
That group also claimed twin suicide bombings of U.N. offices and a court building in Algiers in December 2007 which killed 41 people.
At present, Israel has no diplomatic relations with Algeria, although there have been contacts through a Liaison Office established in Morrocco in November 1994, an Interests Office in Mauritania set up in December 1995 and an Interests Office established in Tunisia in April 11996 following the signing of the Oslo Accords.