At least 10 people have been killed and 35 wounded in a suicide bomb attack in Algeria.
The attack at an army barracks in Lakhdaria, 70km southeast of Algiers, occurred hours before the start of the All-Africa Games.
It is understood an explosives laden truck was driven through the entrance of the barracks.
A major security operation is continuing in Algiers in advance of the games, which involve 8,000 athletes from more than 20 countries.
Thousands of extra police have been deployed in and around the competition venues and athletes' villages ahead of the opening tonight.
Al Qaeda has said it carried out the attack, which is the latest in a series of recent incidents in the north African nation.
A spokesman for the group named the bomber and said that the truck was loaded with over a tonne of explosives.
Many of the suicide attacks in Algiers and other cities this year have been claimed by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which has aligned itself with al-Qaeda.
Lakhdaria, in a mountainous and wooded region southeast of the capital, is known as a militant stronghold.
Over 50 people, including 28 militants, have been killed in Islamist-related violence in Algeria since the beginning of June.
