By DPA,
Algiers/Paris : At least 11 people were killed and several others injured in an attack by suspected Islamic terrorists on police accompanying a shipment of examination papers, a media report said Wednesday.
Seven police officers and at least two teachers, taking the examination papers to the test centre at Timezrit, were killed as militants exploded a bomb and fired from automatic weapons, the online daily Tout sur l’Algerie reported.
The attack took place late Tuesday at Issers, about 30 km southeast of the city of Boumerdes.