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Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Two suicide bombings rocked the
Algerian capital, killing as many as 62 people in the
nation's worst attack since Islamist massacres in the 1990s.
An al-Qaeda group claimed responsibility for the bombings in
a statement published on an Islamist Web site, according to
SITE, a U.S.-based group monitoring extremist Internet
messages.
The first blast in Algiers occurred at 9:40 a.m. local time
and struck the Constitutional Council building, killing as
many as 50 people, most of them students, and injuring
dozens of others, hospital officials said. Less than 10
minutes later, a car bomb detonated near United Nations
offices in the Hydra district, where many foreign embassies
are located. That explosion left 12 dead, according to the
officials. The UN said 10 of its workers may have died and
others are missing.
The GCP prediction period was for the period 9:00 to 14:00
local (0800-1300 GMT). Chisquare is 17988.037 on 18000 df
for p = 0.524 and Z = -0.060.
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