Daesh claims responsibility for Algeria suicide attack

ALGIERS - 1 September 2017: Daesh terrorist group has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a police station in western Algeria that killed two policemen, Al Arabiya channel reported.

In the attack early on Thursday morning, a militant wearing a suicide belt tried to enter a police post in Tiaret, around 300 kilometers (190 miles) west of Algiers.

One of the officers threw himself on the attacker to protect the others in the entrance of the police station.

Another officer who was wounded in the blast later died.