Incident Date:
April 01, 2010 12:00
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: 'Ain Zaouia Algeria
Perpetrators:
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type:
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Transportation (Other than aviation)(Taxi/Rickshaw)
Canadian Target: Yes
Canadian Victim:
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 2 fatalities, 0 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "04/01/2010: At about noon, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) targeting a convoy from the Canadian company SNC Lavalin and the gendarme escorting it, near 'Ain Zaouia, Tizi Ouzou, Skikda, Algeria. The IED exploded after the convoy passed, hitting a taxi behind the convoy. The attack killed the driver and one civilian passenger and destroyed the taxi. No group claimed responsibility."
References: 1) WITS
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