51.   The car bomb attack Tuesday in central Algiers killed six people and wounded several others, according to a new toll given by state television.

52.   The new toll was reported by Dan Frizzell, a spokesman for a government press office set up to field media enquiries.

53.   The new toll included cases in which relatives had taken bodies for cremation without an official autopsy, a police spokesman said.

54.   The new toll was not immediately confirmed by the Algerian authorities.