Algiers, Algeria — Wildfires raging in the forests of eastern Algeria have killed 26 people, according to a “provisional report” by the north African country’s interior minister. Local media put the death toll close to 40, but those figures were not immediately confirmed by officials.
Most victims were reported in the wilaya, or region, of El Tarf, near the northern Algerian-Tunisian border, where 24 people have been found dead,…
