SGPC claims bus bomb attack
12/12/2006 08:33  - (SA)  

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Algiers - The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (SGPC) on Tuesday claimed an anti-United States bombing attack that left one dead and nine wounded, including eight foreigners, in Algeria on Sunday.

According to the interior ministry, an Algerian driver was killed and nine people from Algeria, Britain, Canada, Lebanon and the United States were injured in the attack on buses carrying workers from a company linked to US construction giant, Halliburton.

According to a statement put on the main Islamist website, the SGPC said: "The mujahedin on Sunday carried out a bomb attack on a bus carrying at least 20 crusaders, which caused an undetermined number of dead and wounded, before returning safe and sound to their bases."

The ministry reported that staff from the American construction company, Brown Root and Condor, were returning to their hotel on the Algerian coast when they were hit by a homemade bomb, west of Algiers.

The official statement said that one American, four Britons, two Lebanese, a Canadian and an Algerian were injured. However, a statement from the foreign office in London gave a lower British casualty toll.

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