Algeria’s security services arrested 46 people suspected of lynching and burning a man to death after accusing him of setting fires in his home town Larbaa Nath Irathen, one of the areas worst hit by the fires.
Videos of the attack showed the mob drag Jamal Ben Ismail, 38, out of a police car on Wednesday night pushing him to the ground, beating him to death and setting him on fire.
The state prosecutor on Thursday opened an investigation into the mob lynching.
Local media reported that among those arrested is the owner of the Facebook page who filmed and shared the murder of Jamel as well as twelve people who were on the run.
Algerian emergency services said on Friday that the deadly blazes in the worst-hit province of Tizi Ouzou were “largely extinguished.”
Fire crews remain on high alert in Tizi Ouzou province after first reporting that “all the forest fires that broke out in Tizi Ouzou were extinguished this morning” to later report five new fires in the province.
Some 35 fires raged across 11 northern provinces, the emergency services said and a total of 76 of the more than 100 fires that had broken out since Monday were now under control. But blazes are still burning in areas, including Bejaia.
The Mediterranean has been experiencing a regional heatwave, which created high winds, fueling the spread of the flames.
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