(Xinhua) -- Two buses carrying employees from a U.S. construction company were attacked west of the Algerian capital Algiers on Sunday, said reports reaching here from Algiers. At least one Algerian driver was killed and another injured in the attack in Bouchaoui, 15 kilometers (9 miles) west of Algiers, near a forest on the coast, witnesses were quoted as saying. According to media reports, the attack took place when the two buses were carrying employees of the U.S. company, Brown Root and Condor, to the Sheraton hotel where they were staying on the Algerian coast. Brown Root and Condor, or BRC, is a joint venture between Halliburton's Brown & Root and Condor Engineering SPA with contracts in Algeria's oil industry.