Algiers, Algeria — Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have left 26 a person died According to an "interim report" by the interior minister of the North African country. Most casualties were reported in Wilaya, or the area of El Talf, close to the Algerian-Tunisian border. There he was found 24 dead. mountainous area.
Interior Minister Kamel Berjud also said on public television late Wednesday that two people had died in the Setif area, about 285 miles east of Algiers.
He said Wednesday that 39 fires had broken out in his 14 areas, including his 16 in El Talf, with more than 12 square miles of forest and shrub destroyed by the fires. said. Beginning of August.
In a televised statement, Berjod scorching temperatures, which exceeded 117 degrees Fahrenheit and helped fuel the flames described as being in dry conditions.
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune expressed his condolences and solidarity with the victims. He said the Algerian government will use "all human and material resources" to put an end to the wildfires and that the families of those who died or whose homes were affected "will receive compensation". .
Last year, 104 of his people, including 33 soldiers, were killed in a massive wildfire in Algeria. In mid-June, Algerian authorities rented him a firefighting aircraft from Russia for three months.
A record heat wave and drought swept through much of Southern Europe and North Africa this summer, sparking wildfires. Temperatures dropped dramatically across European countries this week, bringing much-needed rain, but flash flooding became a problem as it rained so fast and hard in some areas. } Scientists blame increasingly extreme heatwave and drought patterns on climate change and are exacerbated by human activity, and experts say things Expected to get worse.
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