Families queue at morgue for Algeria bomb victims

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ALGIERS (AFP) — Grieving relatives crowded a morgue in the Algerian capital on Wednesday as the official death toll from twin Al-Qaeda suicide bombings rose to 31, and rescuers gave up their search for survivors.

The United Nations said 11 of its staff were killed by one of the suicide bombers who targeted a UN office in Algiers Tuesday, and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had ordered a worldwide security review.

With death tolls ranging from 31 stated by the government to 72 given by leading newspaper Al Watan, seven people were pulled alive from the debris of the offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and other UN agencies.

The second attack killed and maimed students packed in a bus as it passed a car that was detonated outside the Supreme...