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Thursday, June 4, 1998 Published at 14:44 GMT 15:44 UK
World: Middle East
Bomb blast follows Algerian militant killing
Algerian troops: Around 80,000 people have been killed in the country's violence since 1992
The security forces in Algeria say ten people have been injured, four of them seriously, in a bomb blast south of the capital, Algiers.
The explosion happened near an area in the province of Blida normally used for a market.
No-one has said they were responsible for the attack, but it comes a day after the authorities announced the death, during an army raid, of a prominent member of the militant Armed Islamic Group, GIA.
The authorities said the man, identified as Mohamed Kebaili, known as Ayachi, was killed with three other suspected militants after the security forces laid siege to an apartment near the airport.
They said he was head of the GIA in Algiers.
The GIA is the most militant of the Islamic groups that turned to violence after the authorities cancelled elections in 1992 which Islamic parties seemed sure to win.
Around 80,000 people have been killed in the conflict.
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