The fire started at around 3.30am at the two-storey building in Mohammedia, in the eastern suburbs of Algiers, authorities said.

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.

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…