{"id":39753,"date":"2026-07-16T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=39753"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:06:08","slug":"fire-at-orphanage-in-algiers-kills-11-injures-19","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/fire-at-orphanage-in-algiers-kills-11-injures-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at orphanage in Algiers kills 11, injures 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Eleven people, including children, were killed and \u200b19 injured in a fire at an orphanage \u200cclose to the Algerian capital Algiers early on Thursday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Locals and emergency crews rushed to the building in the Mohammadia district of \u200bthe province of Algiers, where blackened masonry was \u200bvisible above two window openings behind the exterior gates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ten \u2060of the injured suffered burns of varying severity, and \u200bemergency crews evacuated five people with disabilities from the orphanage \u200bto safety, the civil protection agency said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">It gave no details about the victims or their ages or the possible cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Algerian \u200bPresident Abdelmadjid Tebboune expressed his condolences in a social media \u200bpost, saying he had received news &#8220;of the deaths of children and the \u200cinjuries \u2060of others following a fire that broke out at a children&#8217;s care facility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Elias Gabrini, 58, a resident in the Mohammadia neighbourhood near the orphanage who witnessed the fire, told \u200bReuters residents rushed \u200bfrom their \u2060homes after hearing about the fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;It&#8217;s truly overwhelming. Seeing this with your own eyes is \u200bnot easy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Algeria has been gripped by \u200ba \u2060heatwave in recent days, with civil protection units extinguishing 913 fires nationwide since July 8, state news agency APS reported on \u2060Wednesday, \u200bciting the General Directorate of Civil \u200bProtection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13632,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-39753","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Eleven people, including children, were killed","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39754,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/39753\/revisions\/39754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=39753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}