Terrorist attack kills three soldiers and injures 6 others
Three military troops died and 6 others were wounded in a terrorist attack carried out by a car rigged with explosives detonated by a military camp in the region of Tadmait (Boumerdes).
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The death toll could have been worst if the suicide bomber succeeded to get into the military base with the car but the soldiers eliminated him before reaching his target. Unfortunately the stuffed car exploded at the main entrance’s checkpoint killing three and wounding 6 others lightly, according to sources.
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According to witnesses, the cowardly attack occurs few minutes before the break of fasting spreading panic among the population who preparing to sit around the table. Military troops and rescue teams moved to the site and started the cleaning up, while the military troops closed to traffic the main road till late at night.
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This is the first terrorist attack since the beginning of the holly month of Ramadan in this region after the one that targeted the gendarmerie command in the same region last August, blamed for the death of 48 officers.
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