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Algiers blast toll rises to 37
14/12/2007 16:29 - (SA)
Algiers - The death toll from this week's bombings in Algiers rose to 37 on Friday after three more bodies were pulled from the rubble of UN buildings destroyed in the attacks, the Interior Ministry said.
The previous official toll from Tuesday's twin car bombings, claimed by al-Qaeda's North African branch, was 34 dead and 177 injured.
The three bodies recovered on Thursday afternoon were of Algerian UN employees, the ministry said.
Medical officials said the death toll was between 62 and 72.
The dead included at least 11 employees from the three UN offices hit - the UN Development Programme, UN High Commission for Refugees and the International Labour Organisation - UNDP administrator Kemal Dervis said on Thursday.
The second attack killed and maimed students packed in a bus passing a car as it was detonated outside the country's highest court in central Algiers.
About 100 people have been killed in a string of bombings in Algeria this year including one on April 11 against government headquarters and another on September 6 aimed at the motorcade of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
- AFP
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