(Xinhua) -- A suicide car bomb exploded in northern Algeria early Sunday, wounding 25 people including four policemen, Algerian Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni said. The blast occurred at around 5 a.m. local time (0400 GMT) at a police station near an army barracks in the town of Tizi Ouzou of Kabylie region, the Algeria Press Service (APS) quoted Zerhouni assaying. The explosion caused damage to nearby buildings in Tizi Ouzou, 150 km east of the capital Algiers, the APS said in an earlier report.
Zerhouni inspected the blast site and called on local authorities to rehouse 15 families whose apartments had been damaged, the report said, adding that he also visited the injured in hospital. Zerhouni also urged local citizens and security forces to keep vigilant so as to foil similar terror schemes, the report said.