A suicide bomber attacked a police station in eastern Algeria early Sunday, wounding about 30 people.

The official Algerian news agency APS reports the attacker tried to ram a pick-up truck into the station entrance in the town of Tizi Ouzou, about 100 kilometers east of the capital, Algiers.

The news agency said the blast wounded 15 police officers and 14 civilians. A local hospital reported treating 33 people, some of whom lived in nearby buildings. Most had minor injuries.

Algeria's al-Watan newspaper reported that several Chinese citizens were among the wounded.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing.

In July, the North African wing of al-Qaida said it was behind a suicide attack against a police station in the nearby town of Bordj Maniel.

Algeria's mountainous Kabylie region has become a stronghold for the group.

The country is still emerging from nearly two decades of violence between security forces and Islamist militants — a conflict which killed an estimated 200,000 people.