Algerian children killed by bomb

Four children were killed when a bomb exploded at an abandoned house in western Algeria earlier this week, a national newspaper reported yesterday.

Al-Khabar daily also reported that another bomb in Algiers killed one person and wounded three while rebels slaughtered five civilians southwest of the capital.

The paper said the four children died on Thursday when a booby-trapped house blew up in Sidi Lakhdar area in Tlemecan, some 250 miles west of Algeria.

A second bomb went off the same day in Algiers, killing one person and wounding three in the Ain Benian area, the paper said, Al Ahrar daily said today.