Algiers: Bombs killed 30 people in Algiers on Wednesday, with one of them targeting the prime minister's headquarters at the centre of the Algerian capital.
Hospital sources put the toll from the two bombings at 30.No one has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's attacks.
Police sources said the attack on the government building was a suicide bombing. One of the blasts ripped part of the facade off the prime minister's headquarters at the centre of the elegant port city. A second bomb hit Bab Ezzouar on the city's eastern outskirts, the official APS news agency said.
Belkhadem, who was not harmed, was quoted by the news agency as calling the attack a "criminal and cowardly act."
Dozens of ambulances converged on the residential
neighbourhood as thousands of people poured onto the streets.
"At first I thought it was an earthquake," said resident Tahar bin Taleb. "My wife called me a few moments later crying and
shouting. I ran home to find all the mirrors and windows in the house were shattered."
Some witnesses reported hearing multiple explosions but that could not be confirmed.
