Seven killed in Algerian bomb blast

Replaces Algeria Killings A bomb has exploded at a market in Algeria, killing at least seven people and injuring eight.

The bomb went off in Khemis Miliana, one-hundred kilometres southwest of the capital, Algiers.

The bomb is the second in a week; last Friday, sixteen people were killed and sixty injured in a blast in Algiers.

Similar attacks in the past have been blamed on Islamist militants who have been fighting to overthrow the government since 1992.

Clashes with suspected militants are continuing between Setif and Bajaiain the mountainous Kabylie region east of Algiers; over thirty people have been reported killed since Sunday.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service