ALGIERS (AFP) — Three people were killed and six others were wounded in a suicide attack near the Algerian capital, APS news agency quoted security officials as saying on Monday.
The bomber blew up his car packed with explosives near the town of Dellys, about 40 kilometres (20 miles) east of Algiers, late Sunday at the end of the daily Ramadan fast.
APS did not indicate who might have been targeted in the attack.
The lives of those injured were not in danger, the report said.
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, the first in Algeria since the start of Ramadan on September 1, state radio reported.
The month-long fast was preceded by a series of attacks, with the deadliest killing 48 people on August 19 near Algiers.
That attack was claimed by Al-Qaeda's north African offshoot, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
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