Deadly suicide attack in Algeria

A suicide attack east of the Algerian capital, Algiers, has killed three people and injured another six, the state news agency has reported.

The attack took place at Dellys, about 100km (60 miles) east of Algiers on Sunday, APS news agency said.

Reports said a suicide car bomber hit a checkpoint there at the end of iftar, the meal that breaks the fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

Algeria has suffered regular suicide attacks by rebels linked to al-Qaeda.

Sunday's bombing was the first reported since attacks on 19 and 20 of August killed dozens of people east and south-east of Algiers.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

The bombing of a barracks in Dellys in September 2007 killed at least 28 people and injured a further 60.