| Two members of Algeria's security forces were killed on Tuesday in separate bomb attacks blamed on suspected Islamic rebels, newspaper El Youm said on Wednesday. One soldier died when a home-made bomb exploded during a search for militants in the region of Bouira, 120 km (75 miles) southeast of the capital Algiers. A guard died in a separate blast in the mountains of the eastern province of Tebassa. The Interior Ministry was not immediately available for comment. The slayings bore the hallmarks of the al Qaeda-aligned Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) and came only days after the killing of a soldier and a policeman in the restive province of Boumerdes, 50 km (30 miles) east of Algiers. |