Algerian firefighters were Thursday battling a string of blazes, fanned by drought and a blistering heatwave, that have killed at least 38 people and left
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areas into a tinderbox. local media reported people had been burnt to death in a bus near the city of 100,000 residents. state television reported this morning that prime minister aymen benabderrahmane was visiting the area. according to the country s interior minister kamel beldjoud 106,000 the country s interior minister kamelbeldjoud106,000 coconut in algeria since early august, destroying 1000 hectares of woodland. he said some had been caused by arson. the sense but a repeat of scenes last year which killed 90 people and ravaged one hundred thousand hectares. this catastrophe provoked bitter criticism of authorities over the lack of firefighting aircraft. one specialist, who asked not to be named, said that in the 1980s the country had 22 aircraft for battling forest fires but that
Algiers: Wildfires, which killed at least 38 people and left a trail of destruction in eastern Algeria this week, are now under control, a civil defense official told AFP on Friday. “All of the fires have been completely brought under control,” said fire brigade Col. Farouk Achour, of the civil defense department. Since the beginning of August, almost 150 blazes have destroyed