The Algerian civil defense announced the outbreak of new fires in the Tarf region near the border with Tunisia, but said the fires in the country’s northeast were under control, explaining: “We are working to put out seven fires in the province of Tarf (4 fires) and Skikda ( 3 fires) “in the east of the country”.

The fires have killed at least 38 people, injured dozens, and caused massive deforestation.

The preliminary death toll has risen to 37, thirty of them in El Tarf on the Tunisian border, including 11 children and six women, in addition to five others killed in the Souq Ahras (east) and two in Setif (east). ). ). However, several media outlets reported the death of another victim, a 72-year-old man who died in Guelm (east).

And every summer in the north of the country there are forest fires, but this phenomenon is exacerbated year after year by climate change, which increases drought and abnormal heat. Experts said that “the lack of technology, especially aviation, as well as the inability to fortify forests well, are among the most important causes of fires.”