PARIS — Two car bombs killed at least 11 people and wounded 31 others on Wednesday in the Algerian town of Bouira, a day after a suicide bombing killed 43 people and wounded 45 others in a neighboring region, according to the Algerian Interior Ministry.he bombs on Wednesday were aimed at the military command in Bouira and the nearby Hotel Sophie, the town’s largest, witnesses told The Associated Press. The car bombs went off around 6 a.m. and appeared to be powerful, badly damaging the military compound and barracks in Bouira, about 60 miles southeast of Algiers.
The bomb near the hotel exploded as a bus drove by transporting workers to a dam construction site, according to the Algerian press agency APS. Most of those killed Wednesday were on the bus, it said.
There has been a string of bombings since December 2006, when the largest remaining insurgent group in Algeria, dating from the 1990s, changed its name to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and swore allegiance to Al Qaeda. It had been known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. The insurgency began in 1992, when the military-backed government canceled elections that an Islamic party was poised to win.
No group has yet taken responsibility for the bombings this week.
The bomb on Tuesday, which targeted a police training school at Issers, 35 miles east of the capital, was one of the deadliest attacks in years in Algeria, which supplies oil and gas to Europe and is trying to end the 15 years of conflict with the Islamic rebels. Last Sunday, 12 people were killed in an ambush of a military commander and his escort.
On Tuesday, all the dead except one were young male civilians who had been lining up outside the police academy to take tests for recruitment. One member of the gendarmerie, the national police force, died. Of the wounded, some 32 were civilians and 13 gendarmes, the military said.
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