The suspected mastermind of a recent suicide bombing that claimed 32 lives in Algeria was among 11 people killed in militant-linked violence over the weekend in Algeria, a security source said Sunday. Ten Islamist rebels were killed by security forces on Friday in the restive eastern Kabylie region, south of the seaside capital Algiers, the source said. The dead included a local chieftain, Aissa Boucenna, alias Serraka, the presumed mastermind of the September 8 suicide bombing at a coast guard barracks in the Kabylie town of Dellys. Al-Qaeda's self-styled offshoot in North Africa claimed responsibility for that attack. In Friday's violence, a soldier was also killed after a crude bomb exploded near the town of Biskra, the source said. Algeria has been rocked by violence in recent weeks. At least 33 people have died in attacks or militant-linked insurgency since September 13 alone.