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AFP, Algeria

Algeria was rocked by its second suicide bombing in three days on Saturday as a car bomb ripped through a naval barracks in the northeast of the country, killing at least 28 people.

Around 60 people were injured in the atack in the port town of Dellys 70 kilometres (45 miles) east of Algiers, medical sources told AFP. Most of the dead were members of the naval coastguard but civilians were among the injured.

A van normally used to deliver supplies to the barracks smashed through the rear entrance and penetrated 20 metres (yards) inside the base before exploding, according to witnesses. The vehicle with Algiers number plates was seized beforehand, packed full of explosives and its driver kidnapped, according to preliminary indications. A local police official organising the airlifting of the injured by helicopter of the injured said the death toll could rise significantly.