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By Hamid Ould Ahmed2 Min ReadSlideshow( 2 images) ALGIERS( Reuters)-Algeria’s government on Tuesday said arsonists were responsible for dozens of forest fires that have killed 24 people, including 18 military men, and destroyed homes east of the capital. Plumes of smoke rose from pockets of fire in the forest in Tizi Ouzou region on Tuesday, while residents used tree branches and hurled water from plastic containers in an attempt to put out the flames however they could. Several houses were burn

Open this photo in gallery Firefighters stand along a road during a forest fire in Ain al-Hammam village in the Tizi Ouzou region, east of Algiers, Algeria on Aug.... 10, 2021. ABDELAZIZ BOUMZAR/ ReutersWildfires tearing through forested areas of northern Algeria have killed at least 65 people, state television reported on Wednesday, as some of the most destructive blazes in the country’s history continued to rage. The government has deployed the army to help fight the fires, which have burnt m

Burned trees are pictured near Tizi Ouzou some 100 km( 62 miles) east of Algiers following wildfires in this mountainous region, on Aug.10, 2021.... President Abdelmadjid Tebboune tweeted that the soldiers saved 100 people from the fires in two areas of Kabyle, the region that is home to the North African nation's Berber population.... Eleven other soldiers were burned fighting the fires, four of them seriously, the Defense Ministry said....

ALGIERS( REUTERS)-Wildfires tearing through forested areas of northern Algeria have killed at least 65 people, state television reported on Wednesday( Aug 11), as some of the most destructive blazes in the country's history raged. 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. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared three days of nationa