{"id":43862,"date":"2026-08-27T07:47:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T05:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43862"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:01:43","slug":"wildfires-kill-12-people-across-several-algerian-provinces","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/wildfires-kill-12-people-across-several-algerian-provinces\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires kill 12 people across several Algerian Provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Twelve people were killed \u200bin wildfires that swept \u200cthrough several Algerian Provinces, Interior Minister Said Sayoud said late \u200bon Wednesday, amid a \u200bsevere heatwave gripping North Africa.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The \u2060fatalities included five people \u200bin Jijel province, four in \u200bBejaia and three in Tizi Ouzou.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sayoud added that 54 people had \u200bsuffered burn injuries, including \u200bsix in critical condition who are \u200ccurrently \u2060in intensive care.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Algeria&#8217;s civil protection services recorded 154 wildfires across the country on \u200bWednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thirty-six \u200bfires \u2060were reported in Bejaia province alone, of \u200bwhich 18 had \u200bbeen \u2060brought under control.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The fires come as an exceptional heatwave \u2060sweeps \u200bacross North Africa, \u200bparticularly Tunisia and Algeria.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Algeria&#8217;s civil protection services recorded 154 wildfires across the country on \u200bWednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thirty-six \u200bfires \u2060were reported in Bejaia province alone, of \u200bwhich 18 had \u200bbeen \u2060brought under control.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The fires come as an exceptional heatwave \u2060sweeps \u200bacross North Africa, \u200bparticularly Tunisia and Algeria<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13632,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-43862","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Twelve people were killed \u200bin wildfires in Algerian Provinces,","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43862","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43865,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43862\/revisions\/43865"}],"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=43862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}