A fire at an orphanage outside of Algiers claimed the lives of at least 11 people and wounded 19, the country's civil defence announced on Thursday.

Algeria is probing a deadly orphanage fire near Algiers, early on 16 July, that killed at least 11, injured 19 and struck amid a heatwave and nearly 1,000 recent blazes.

A fire tore through an orphanage on the outskirts of Algiers early Thursday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 19 others, Algerian civil defence officials said.

ALGIERS -- Eleven children were killed and 19 others injured in a fire that broke out Thursday morning at an orphanage in the Algerian capital Algiers, authorities said in a…

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