A total of five people were killed when a bomb hit a vehicle in Algeria, state-run APS news agency reported Wednesday.
Local media quoted a security source as saying that the blast occurred on Tuesday when a vehicle passed the area of Messaad in Djelfa Province, 200 km south of Algiers, killing five passengers, Xinhua reported.
The North African country has faced an increasing threat by Islamist militants since the 1990s. The security situation in Algeria have been significantly improved in recent years since the government adopted the national reconciliation policy and stepped up military strikes.
However, terrorist attacks against the army and the police still occur frequently in some regions of the country.
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