Almotamar.net google news alert - Bombs have exploded outside the headquarters of Algeria's prime minister and a police station in Algiers.Authorities say the two blasts killed at least 17 people and wounded more than 80. Witnesses say a suicide car bomber carried out the attack at the headquarters of Prime Minister Abdelaziz Belkhadem in central Algiers. The other explosion was at a police station in the Bab Ezzouar district in the capital's eastern outskirts.
The prime minister, who was not harmed, called the attacks a criminal and cowardly act.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
Other recent bombings in Algeria have been claimed by the al-Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
Last month, the group bombed a bus carrying employees of a Russian firm, killing one Russian and three Algerians.
In December, two people died in a bomb attack on a bus carrying employees of an affiliate of the American corporation Halliburton.
The al-Qaida Organization in the Islamic Maghreb has also claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Algerian police stations.
It is the last militant group fighting after Algeria's civil war. Other Islamists accepted national reconciliation efforts.
The Islamic insurgency began in 1992 after Algeria's military canceled legislative elections which were being won by a now-outlawed Islamist party.