Algeria: Flags fly half-mast in Algiers as country mourns wildfires victims

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Flags were flying at half-mast at government offices in Algiers on Thursday, as the country mourns for 69 people killed after wildfires ravaged many regions in Algeria last week.

Algerian Civil Defence statement said that firefighters are extinguishing “92 fires across 16 states” “37 fires in Tizi Ouzou, 15 in El Tarf, 11 in Bejaia, 8 in Jijel and 4 in Souk Ahras.”

According to the latest toll announced by authorities on Wednesday, 28 soldiers were among the dead after they attempted extinguishing fires.

Earlier on Wednesday, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune declared three days of national mourning starting from Thursday.

The Interior Ministry in turn, accused “criminal hands” of setting fires that led to great losses in forests, cultivated areas and human losses.

TRANSLATIONS:

SOT, Tayeb Qasim, resident (Arabic): “The mourning began after it was announced by the President of the Republic, the Algerian people are in solidarity with our brothers in the tribes, the majority of shops were closed for three days alongside state institutions. We have mercy on our dead brothers in the Kabylie region.”

SOT, Tayeb Qasim, resident (Arabic): “We deeply regret the material losses or rather the catastrophe that was occurred, and we are in solidarity with our people morally or materially. Here in the region where we live in Algiers, three convoys were sent to the Kabylie region, carrying all the requirements after fires. In the end, we deeply mourn the catastrophe that occurred in the Kabylie region and its neighbouring regions”.

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