About 7,500 firefighters trying to bring blazes under control and 1,500 people evacuated as heatwave spreads
Ten soldiers are among 25 people to have been killed by wildfires in the mountainous Béjaïa and Bouïra regions of Algeria, as a heatwave spreads across north Africa and southern Europe.
About 7,500 firefighters were trying to bring the flames under control, authorities said, adding that about 1,500 people had been evacuated.
