GSPC claims responsibility for suicide attack and says leader is killed

The so-called the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) said senior member Abdelmoumene Rachid alias Abou younes Al Assimi.

• “The suicide attack which was carried out in the province of Boumerdes (50 km east of Algiers) was a revenge of the leader of the centre area in the Kabylian region Abu Younes Houdeifa,” said the GSPC in a statement.
• “The suicide attack was carried out by a member of the GSPC against a military caravan in the area of Zaatria in Boumerdes 70 km east of Algiers. Suicide bomber Mohamed went near an army vehicle and blew up his car.”
• The terrorist attack killed two people and wounded 20.
• According to security observers in Algeria, the suicide attack was not successful as it did not achieve terrorists’ goals.
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• The Salafist Group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack carried out on a military barracks in the fifth zone in eastern Mauritania.