Algerian villagers grapple with wildfire aftermath

BEJAIA - When Algeria's deadly wildfires tore through the forest around their village, brothers Khelaf and Lyazid Tazibt could only hustle their families out of the door and abandon the home they shared to the flames.

"Like anyone else who saw those flames, it was impossible to do anything. We all gave up," said Khelaf Tazibt, 55, standing in one of their single-storey home's damaged rooms, its walls cracked and black with soot. This month, a European Union atmosphere monitor said the Mediterranean had become a wildfire hotspot as massive blazes engulfed forests in Turkey, Greece and North Africa, aided by a heatwave.

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