Eleven people die in fire at Algerian foster care home

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Eleven people died and nineteen were injured in a fire at a foster care facility in Algiers, Algeria, on Thursday. Firefighters responded to the blaze at 03:30 local time and were still working to extinguish it over three hours later. The civil protection department deployed significant resources to the scene, including ten fire engines and sixteen ambulances. The ages of the victims were not specified. This incident occurs amidst a heatwave in Algeria, which has seen nearly 1,000 fires recorded in the past week. Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb visited injured individuals in Algiers hospitals.

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The fire was being tackled by firefighters at 03:30 local time on Thursday.

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Nineteen other people were injured in the fire.

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Eleven people died in a fire at a foster care facility in Algiers, Algeria.

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Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb visited injured individuals in hospitals.

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Algeria has been experiencing a heatwave, with nearly 1,000 fires recorded in a week.

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Eleven people have died in a fire at a foster care facility in Algiers, Algeria's capital city.The country's civil protection department said 19 others were injured in the blaze, which firefighters began to tackle at 03:30 local time (04:30 GMT) on Thursday.They were still attempting to extinguish the fire just over three hours later, when the authorities released an update on the situation.Their statement did not specify the ages of those killed or injured.The civil protection department deployed 10 fire engines and 16 ambulances to the scene.Algeria has been experiencing a heatwave for several days, and nearly 1,000 fires have been recorded in the space of a week, the AFP news agency has reported.Algerian state media said Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb travelled to two hospitals in Algiers to visit individuals injured in Thursday's fire.The report was accompanied by a picture of Ghrieb next to a child in a hospital bed.

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