13 Aug 2021; MEMO: Twenty-two people have been arrested in Algeria after being suspected of causing the wildfires that have killed 65 people, the president revealed yesterday.
Abdelmadjid Tebboune explained that some of the wildfires were a result of the unusually high temperatures, but most were the work of criminals.
Though the government had requested European countries allow it to rent firefighting helicopters, its calls were not answered immediately, Tebboune explained, because the equipment had been stationed in Greece and Turkey to extinguish the fires that had spread there.
Two firefighting airplanes will arrive from Spain today, he added.
