PARIS — At least 43 people, mainly civilians and police recruits, were killed and 38 others were injured Tuesday when a suicide bomber drove a car filled with explosives into a police academy about 35 miles east of the Algerian capital, Algiers, Algerian government officials said.
The interior ministry said in a statement that the death toll was a "preliminary estimate" for the attack early Tuesday in the Les Issers district of Boumerdes, The Associated Press reported.
"There was an explosion at 7 a.m. this morning," said an official contacted at the office of the Algerian president, who declined to be named but who confirmed the details of the interior ministry statement.
"What is certain is that it was an attack aimed at hitting a large number of people — they were above all civilians and a number of recruits,” the official said.
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