Islamist attack in Algeria worst in a year

ALGIERS - An explosion killed four people in the east of Algeria as they were travelling in their car, local sources told AFP Friday. The victims, local traders who were part of a hunting party, were travelling between the towns of Khenchela and Tebessa, near the border with Tunisia, at the time of the blast.
Investigators are still trying to establish what caused the explosion but local sources said there were a lot of French landmines dating back to the war of independence still buried in the region.
But one other source said the explosion was caused by a home-made device set off remotely, in a region where Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is active.
On June 25, five people including a child and a baby were wounded when gunmen opened up with automatic weapons on a wedding party near Tebessa in an attack the security forces attributed to extremists.