00:00At least 11 people, including children, were killed when a fire burned an orphanage in Algeria's capital, Algiers.
00:08The Algerian civil defense said the toll was provisional and added that another 19 people were injured in the fire,
00:15the cause of which is unknown.
00:18The head of the forensic medicine department, Rashid Belhaj, said that some of the bodies were completely burned and required
00:25DNA tests to be identified.
00:28Algeria has been sweltering under a heat wave for several days and nearly a thousand fires have been recorded in
00:34the space of a week.
00:35From July 8th to 15, the civil defense reported 932 fires, according to state media.
00:42Most had been extinguished, but a small number was still burning.
