Reuters. Cherchell, Algeria
A suicide attack on an Algerian army barracks left many issues such as militant succeeds to find in one of the safest places in the country and stirred dark memories of the last conflict.
Two suicide bombers hit the barracks to kill housing a renowned military school in the coastal city of Cherchell West of Algiers on Friday, 16 soldiers and two civilians.
More than 20 people were injured, Algeria APS quoted authority the Ministry of defence as talking.
"When I learned that the barracks were taken, I it, could believe" said Yahia Keriani, runs a book-stall close to the connection and is one of the explosions.
' Cherchell of the military school is the largest and the most secure in the country. How is this possible? "
Algeria, an energy exporter and a key US ally in its campaign against al-Qaida, is created by nearly two decades of conflict between security forces and Islamic militant groups, which is about 2,00,000 people killed.
Violence died himself in recent years, but the militant - operate now as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - ambush to carry out kidnappings and occasional bombing.
Algeria has said that it believes AQIM take advantage of the chaos in neighboring Libya and smuggling weapons from this battle zone to its base in the Sahara.
On Friday, which drove the attackers until the barracks soon after Iftar - as Muslims their daily fast break during the holy month of Ramadan.
Residents said that the first attacker exploded at the entrance before the second in the front courtyard, where officers were you to eat.
In the Centre of Cherchell assembled about 100 km west of Algiers, in the Roman ruins of the city, the news to digest small groups of people.
Many of these Cherchell had been always safe, even at the height of the Algerian violence.
In the past had focused attacks on area east of the capital, including the mountainous region of Kabylie AQIM has a stronghold.
Said "a suicide bomb attack in 2011 against the military school of Cherchell very worrying," told of Reuters an older inhabitants.
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