ISIS Claims Responsibility For Constantine Suicide Attack

ISIS claimed, on Monday, responsibility for the attack, which targeted a police headquarters in Constantine Province (eastern Algeria), on Sunday evening.

AAMAQ agency, which belongs to ISIS, announced in a statement, the responsibility for organizing the terrorist attack on a police station in the city of Constantine (eastern Algeria).

AAMAQ said that “A martyrdom operation using an explosive suicide belt by an ISIS fighter has targeted, on Sunday evening, the Algerian police services’ center”, as reported by “Reuters”.

Two police officers were injured, on Sunday evening, in the foiled terrorist attack which tergeted the 13th urban police headquarters, in Constantine Bab El Qantra neighborhood, according to the General Directorate of the National Security.

Same source added that the two victims are suffering from injuries that were described as “simple”, and were transferred to the medical emergency of Constatine University Hospital of Ben Badis (eastern Algeria),  to receive the necessary treatment.

“A policeman was in front of the headquarters of the urban security, which is located in a building where ten families live, and responded strongly and accurately targeting the explosive belt that the terrorist was carrying”.

Security services immediately created a security belt, and the prosecutors opened an investigation into the incident.