A suicide bomb attack against a police academy in eastern Algeria resulted in at least 43 people dead, officials said on Tuesday.

A further 38 people were wounded in the attack which took place in the town of Issers, 60 kilometres east of Algiers.

The attacker drove a bomb-laden car into the main entrance of the school where police academy candidates were gathered, the radio report said. Further details were not immediately available.

Tuesday's attack follows the death of 12 people - 11 soldiers and one civilian - on Sunday when suspected Islamist terrorists attacked a military convoy near the coastal town of Skikda, 350 kilometres East of Algiers.

Ten further military personnel were injured in the earlier blast, and four of the attackers were killed in the firefight following the bombing.

No organization had yet taken responsibility for Tuesday's attack, although the terrorist group al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed earlier attacks in Algeria, the worst of which was the bombing of UN offices in Algiers in 2007 which killed 41.

Algeria has seen a resurgence of violence in recent weeks, with suicide bombings taking place in the east of the country on August 3 and August 10, in which six people died and dozens were wounded.

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb is widely believed to be made up of militants who fought in Algeria's decade-long civil war which began in 1992.