ALGIERS, Aug 3 (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers on Sunday, wounding 21 people including six policemen, the Interior Ministry said.

The blast happened at about 5 a.m. (0400 GMT) in Tizi Ouzou, the main town in the mountainous Berber-speaking Kabylie region of northern Algeria, a ministry statement carried by the official APS news agency said. (Reporting by William Maclean)

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