An Algerian court sentenced in absentia 49 extremists to death after being convicted of carrying out a terrorist attack that killed 11 people in 2007, local daily El-Khabar reported Saturday.
   The Algerian Criminal Court sentenced Friday 49 extremists, including an al-Qaida leader, identified as Drodkal Abdel Malik, to capital punishment. They were convicted of bombing a police site in eastern Algeria on April 11, 2007, killing 11 people and wounding more than 100, Xinhua reported.
   Four other convicts on the same charge were sentenced to life imprisonment and a fifth got four years term in prison. Two defendants were acquitted.
   The indictment sheet included accusations of premeditated murder, forming a terrorist cell and carrying out terrorist attack against a governmental facility.
   The 56 defendants belong to the Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) radical group.