January 1995 Algiers bombing

{{Infobox civilian attack

| title = January 1995 Algiers bombing

| location = Algiers, Algeria

| date = 30 January 1995

| partof = Algerian Civil War

| fatalities = 42

| injuries = 250+

| perpetrator = Armed Islamic Group

}}

{{Campaignbox Algerian Civil War}}

The January 1995 Algiers bombing occurred at 3:20pm on 30 January 1995, a bomb exploded on a busy street in central Algiers, Algeria.{{cite web |title=A Car Bombing in Algiers Kills 38 and Wounds 256 (Published 1995) |website=The New York Times |date=31 January 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130155457/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/31/world/a-car-bombing-in-algiers-kills-38-and-wounds-256.html |archive-date=2021-01-30 |url-status=live |url=https://nytimes.com/1995/01/31/world/a-car-bombing-in-algiers-kills-38-and-wounds-256.html}}[https://latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-31-mn-26492-story.html Car bomb in Algeria kills 38] It was a suicide car bombing which used over {{cvt|220|lb}} of explosives. It was detonated in front of a bank office, across the street from Algiers' police headquarters and near to the city's main post office and train station. It killed 42 people and injured over 250 others.{{cite web |title=Car Bomb Injures 13 As Violence Surges In Algeria Civil War (Published 1995) |website=The New York Times |date=18 May 1995 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429025648/https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/18/world/car-bomb-injures-13-as-violence-surges-in-algeria-civil-war.html |archive-date=2018-04-29 |url-status=live |url=https://nytimes.com/1995/05/18/world/car-bomb-injures-13-as-violence-surges-in-algeria-civil-war.html}} The bombing was perpetrated by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) and occurred during the Algerian Civil War. Algiers was also bombed on 26 August 1992,[https://latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-08-27-mn-6892-story.html Bomb kills 9, injures 100 at Algiers airport] and in 2007 on 11 April and 11 December.