Algeria in mourning faces these latest forest fires
Faced with the latest fires, Algeria begins to mourn as the disaster caused at least 90 deaths.
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Algeria is fighting its last fires, a week after the start of violent fires which ravaged the north of the country and which killed at least 90 people, according to a latest report from local authorities.
These fires are of criminal origin, according to the Algerian government, which announced the arrest of 22 people.
Tonight, the majority of the fires are in any case under control, according to the authorities.
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Only nineteen fires are still active in 10 wilayas.
There, civil protection teams continue to fight against the flames, especially in Béjaïa and El Tarf.
But in Tizi Ouzou, the area most affected since the start of the crisis, there are only two fires still in progress.
Still, the heat wave that has fanned the flames all week makes the work of civil protection difficult.
National services today announced a new peak reaching 44 ° C in northern Algeria.
In Kabylia as in the rest of the country, the time has now come to take stock and mourn.
On Saturday August 14, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune visited the wounded hospitalized in Algiers.
A young man killed by the mob
And then, another drama shocked the country.
It is the death of young Djamel Ben Ismaïl, suspected of having started a fire, then
lynched and burned alive
by a white-
hot
crowd in Larbaa Nath Irathen, in Kabylia.
The scene, extremely violent, has been filmed and shared on the internet since, many Algerians call on social networks for justice to be done.
This evening the police announced that they had arrested 36 people in this case.
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