SIX TROOPS HURT IN ALGERIA ATTACK !

Six Algerian soldiers have been wounded in an ambush east of the capital Algiers, reports say. The men were injured when their vehicle drove over an explosive device that had been planted on the road near the town of Tizi Ouzou, in the Kabylie region.

There has been no claim of responsibility for the ambush, which comes four weeks after a double suicide attack in Algiers. Islamists blamed for recent attacks are based in Kabylie, officials say. The ambushed patrol had been involved in a search for rebels.

The group known as al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb said it carried out December's attacks, in which 37 people were killed when a UN refugee agency office and a government building were hit.
BBC NEWS REPORT.