Bomber targets crowed waiting for Algerian president

At least 16 people were killed and more than 74 injured by a bomb that ripped through a crowd waiting for the Algerian president to arrive in an eastern town.

The bomb exploded yesterday about 45 minutes before President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s scheduled arrival in Batna, about 280 miles east of the capital, Algiers – and the last stop on the president’s tour of eastern Algeria.