ALGIERS, July 16, (Agencies): A fresh wave of violence in Algeria has killed at least six people and left around 20 wounded in recent days, Algerian media reported Saturday.
Overnight Friday security forces in the eastern Boudjellal mountain region shot dead two gunmen near the border with Tunisia, the APS news agency reported.
“The two terrorists armed with automatic pistols were eliminated in an ambush carried out by the security forces...,” a security source told the agency.
It was just the latest of several clashes in the region along the border with Tunisia.
Then early Saturday a suicide bomber blew up his car in front of a police station at Bordj-Menaiel, 70 kms (45 miles) east of Algiers, the daily El-Watan’s online edition reported. Shortly afterwards, another suicide bomber drove his motorbike at a crowd near the town hall, killing a police officer, a local official and wounding 14 people: six civilians, seven police officers and a paramilitary gendarme.
The explosion seriously damaged the town hall and several nearby buildings.
On Wednesday a bomb attack at a military post near Baghlia in the same region killed two soldiers and wounded six more, the Algerian press reported Saturday. Troops were subsequently involved in a fierce gun battle with insurgents there.

Fighters with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) have long been active in the eastern part of Algeria, particularly in the troubled Kabylie region.
Algeria’s official APS news agency reported Saturday that a police officer and a city hall employee died in Saturday’s attack in Bordj Menaiel, 70 kms (44 miles) east of the capital, Algiers.
Several people were injured. Saturday’s attack follows bombings in the Boumerdes region earlier this week which killed two soldiers and injured six others, Watan daily reported.
APS also reported two armed extremists were killed by security forces in an overnight ambush Friday in the east of the country.
The North African nation experienced a bloody conflict between the government and armed Islamist groups in the 1990s. Sporadic attacks continue, generally targeting security officials.