The fires erupt amid a heatwave in North Africa and Southern Europe. Click to read more. Algeria wildfires have killed at least 34 people, forcing mass evacuations in multiple provinces in the northern part of the country.
The government has deployed the army to help fight the fires, which have burnt most fiercely in the mountainous Kabylie region, and 28 of the dead are soldiers, with another 12 critically injured with burns.