A view shows a burnt area following a wildfire in the village of Ait Sid Ali, in the northeastern Bejaia province, Algeria August 16, 2021. REUTERS/Abdelaziz Boumzar
BEJAIA, Algeria (Reuters) - When Algeria's deadly wildfires tore through the forest around their village, brothers Khelaf and Lyazid Tazibt could only hustle their families out of the door and abandon the home they shared to the flames.
The two men, both retired, and their wives and children, are now among hundreds of Algerians left homeless by the country's worst fires in memory, which have burned swathes of the northeast over the past week, killing dozens of people.
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