In Algeria, people blame government for wildfire deaths
The public prosecutor of Algeria's Bejaia ordered an investigation into "the causes of the fires and possible perpetrators."
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The public prosecutor of Algeria's Bejaia ordered an investigation into "the causes of the fires and possible perpetrators."
ALGIERS — Algerian firefighters were on Tuesday battling blazes that have killed 34 people across the tinder-dry north, destroyed homes and coastal resorts and turned vast forest areas into blackened wastelands.Witnesses described fleeing walls of flames that raged "like a blowtorch" as TV footage showed charred cars, burnt-out shops and smouldering fields and scrubland.Severe
Tunisian firefighters have completely contained the fires that broke out in a number of regions of the country, with the help of members of the Algerian army and firefighting planes from Spain, the Tunisian Interior Minister said on Wednesday. Wildfires that swept across regions of Algeria, leaving at least 34 people, including 10 soldiers, dead, spread to Tunisian regions including forests of Tabarka, Jendouba, Beja, Bizerte and Siliana. Earlier on Wednesday, Algeria managed to contain the bush
Algeria was battling to contain devastating forest fires along its Mediterranean coast on Tuesday, in an inferno which has killed at least 34 people, authorities said, adding they had managed to...
Algerian firefighters are battling wildfires that have left 34 people dead across the country, destroying homes.