AT LEAST 26 PEOPLE DIED IN ALGERIAN FOREST FIRES

  • 18/08/2022

At least 26 people have died and dozens more have been injured in forest fires that have ravaged northern Algeria. The country's interior minister, Kamel Beldjoud, said 24 people died in El Tarf, near the border with Tunisia, as well as a mother and daughter in Setif.
 
On Wednesday evening, firefighters were still battling several blazes with the help of helicopters. According to reports, 350 people have been evacuated in various provinces. El Tarf, according to the civil protection agency, was the hardest hit area, with 16 fires burning. 

The names of the mother, 58, and her 36-year-old daughter who died in Setif have not yet been released, but officials there said flames had reached dozens of homes and villages. Northern Algeria is affected by forest fires every year, with 90 people thought to have died in them last year - and more than 100,000 hectares of woodland burnt.

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