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🔥 Wildfires
Twelve dead as over 150 wildfires rage across northeastern Algeria
Algeria · Rest of Africa region
detected 2026-08-27T07:15:16Z
updated 2026-08-27T07:15:16Z
More than 150 fires spread in a single day across several of Algeria’s provinces, killing at least 12 people.
Single-source report, not yet corroborated.
Key facts
- Category
- 🔥 Wildfires
- Severity
- Critical
- Confidence
- Low
- Sources
- 1
- Location
- Approximate (country level)
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9 other events within 300 km in the 30 days around this event.
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