The 2010 Tidjelabine bombing occurred on April 7, 2010, when an explosive bomb detonated against a patrol of the
Gendarmerie Nationale in the town of
Tidjelabine
Tidjelabine is a town and commune in Boumerdès Province
Boumerdès (, Kabyle language, Kabyle: Tanebḍit n Bumerdas) is a provinces of Algeria, province (''wilaya'') of northern Algeria, located in the Kabylia region, between Algiers and Ti ...
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Boumerdès Province
Boumerdès (, Kabyle language, Kabyle: Tanebḍit n Bumerdas) is a provinces of Algeria, province (''wilaya'') of northern Algeria, located in the Kabylia region, between Algiers and Tizi-Ouzou, with its capital at the coastal city of Boumerdès ...
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to Algeria–Tunisia border, the northeast by Tunisia; to Algeria–Libya border, the east by Libya; to Alger ...
killing 2 and injuring 5. The
Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb
Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (, ), or AQIM, is an Islamist militant organization (of al-Qaeda) that aims to overthrow the Algerian government and institute an Islamic state. To that end, it was then engaged in an insurgency c ...
is suspected as being responsible.
See also
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Terrorist bombings in Algeria
Many bombings were committed during the Algerian Civil War that began in 1991. The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) claimed responsibility for many of them, while for others no group has claimed responsibility. These terrorist inci ...
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List of terrorist incidents, 2010
References
History of Boumerdès Province
Car and truck bombings in Algeria
Mass murder in 2010
2010 disasters in Algeria
Terrorist incidents in Africa in 2010
Terrorist incidents in Algeria in the 2010s
2010 murders in Algeria
Islamic terrorism in Algeria
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