ALGIERS, Algeria – 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.
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.
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