ion. The home-made bomb exploded at 9 a.m. (1000 GMT) in El Khemis in Ain Defla province, 130 km (80 miles) southwest of Algiers. "The hands of terrorism once again target citizens in mass killings. Preliminary reports put the toll at 13 killed and 39 wounded," the radio
said, using the term the authorities use to describe Moslem rebels. Ain Defla was the site of a bomb attack on a passenger train on August 12 in which seven people were killed and 11
others wounded. According to Western estimates more than 65,000 people have been killed since early 1992 when Algeria plunged into violence following the cancellation of a general election in which radical Islamists had taken a commanding lead.
