Algeria: suicide bomber fails to infiltrate into police barracks in Algeria

A terrorist was killed as he tried to blow himself up at a police barracks eastern Algiers Wednesday at the same time with an explosion of a hand-made bomb next to a coffee shop not far from the barracks wounding three people, according to Algerian News Agency (APS).

• A suicide bomber with a bomb belt seized the opportunity of the explosion to infiltrate into the barracks before policemen saw and shot him.
• Witnesses saw the suicide bomber’s body torn into pieces at the barracks while the hand-made bomb left three wounded and panic among people.
• The so-called Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (formerly known as GSPC) which was behind suicide attacks in Algeria has not claimed responsibility for this attack so far.
• Observers believe that the use of the hand-made bomb in this attack was meant to facilitate the infiltration of the suicide bomber into the barracks.
• Earlier, security sources confirmed that Al-Qaeda decided to turn to individual assassinations after security forces had tightened the noise on it.  
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