At least two people have been killed and several others wounded in a car bomb attack in the Algerian town of Thenia, the interior ministry has said.
The blast also caused serious damage to houses near the police building in the town, 55km (34 miles) east of Algiers.
Earlier this month, four people were killed in a suicide bombing of a police station in the nearby town of Naciria.
That attack was claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, which was behind a string of similar bombings last year.
At least 41 people, including 17 United Nations staff, were killed in twin suicide bombings in Algiers on 11 December.
The militant group, formerly the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), has also claimed to have carried out attacks that killed more than 50 people in early September, and blasts that killed at least 23 people in the capital in April.
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