Bomb explodes as Algerians go to polls
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Your support makes all the difference.Millions of Algerians, weary of bloodshed, turned out yesterday to vote in their first parliamentary election in more than five years of violence - blamed by officials on Muslim fundamentalists.
Many said they were seeking peace through the ballot box. Even as they voted, an Islam-oriented party contesting the poll said a bomb had seriously wounded two local election observers in a car near Djelfa in central Algiers. Voting started slowly but by mid-afternoon, according to the Interior Ministry, 41.78 per cent, or nearly 7 million of the 16.8 million electorate, had cast their ballots. Reuters - Algiers
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