Algeria: 4 police killed in roadside bomb attack -
Algerian police officials say four officers were killed and a fifth seriously injured in a roadside bomb attack east of the capital.
The attack took place Saturday as a police convoy was traveling in the restive Boumerdes region.
Police were escorting a civilian vehicle delivering official school examination forms. Saturday’s victims were traveling in the same vehicle.
It’s the third year in a row extremists in the Boumerdes have targeted convoys carrying the exams.