At least 26 people have died with several dozen injured amid separate forest fires raging across drought-hit northern Algeria. Most of the fatalities were near the border with Tunisia.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – At least 26 people have died and dozens of others have been injured in forest fires that ravaged 14 districts of northern Algeria, the interior minister said on Wednesday.
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 destruction in their wake.
Several people suffered burns or breathing difficulties, but no new official figures have been given on the number of injured.
A previous report by the Civil Protection said that four people had suffered various degrees of burns and 41 others had breathing difficulties in Souk Ahras, another border
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