Algiers - A bomb hurled into a narrow lane in the Kasbah district yesterday killed at least eight people and injured 50, sowing panic and despair in a new upsurge of bloodletting in Algeria. "A wild panic seized the crowd," one witness said after the blast near the large Ketchaoua mosque in Algiers's old town.
"People were running in every direction, women were screaming . . . The wounded were shouting and bleeding," he said. The death toll from the blast was expected to rise as several people had serious injuries, including a 12-year-old girl whose legs were to be amputated, hospital sources said.
