Algeria fires fanned by winds, extreme heat kill 34

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The interior ministry says 7,500 firefighters and 350 firetrucks were mobilised with aerial support to fight the flames. Read more at straitstimes.com.

ALGIERS - Wildfires raging across Algeria during a blistering heatwave have killed more than 30 people and forced mass evacuations, the government said on Monday.it recorded 97 blazes across 16 provinces,The fires killed at least 34 people, including 10 soldiers, as they raged through residential areas, the interior ministry said, revising an earlier toll of 15 dead.

“Civil protection services remain mobilised until the fires are completely extinguished,” the ministry said. Fires regularly rage through forests and fields in Algeria in summer, and this year have been exacerbated by a heatwave that has seen several Mediterranean countries break temperature records.Tunisia’s state energy supplier STEG announced planned half-hour to one-hour power cuts in a bid to preserve the network’s performance.

In some other North African countries such as Morocco and Libya, temperatures were relatively normal compared to annual averages.

 

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