CAIRO, 11 Aug. The death toll from wildfires in Algeria has reached 65, among the dead are military personnel and civilians, the country's national television reported on Wednesday. Algerian Prime Minister Ayman bin Abdurrahman said on Tuesday evening that 42 people were killed in fires in the country's highlands. On the same day, the Algerian Defense Ministry announced that 18 soldiers died trying to extinguish forest fires and rescue people surrounded by fire in the mountain villages of Tizi Ouzou province. “The victims of forest fires were 65 people, 28 of them military personnel, 37 civilians The majority of the victims are in the province of Tizi-Ouzu, «the state channel reported.
