11 killed in orphanage fire as Algeria struggles in heatwave

A fire burning at an orphanage in Algeria’s capital has killed at least 11 people including children, authorities said Thursday, amid a heatwave that has sparked hundreds of blazes in the country’s north.Firefighters had been battling to extinguish the flames since before dawn in the Mohammadia suburb of Algiers.“At around 3:00 am, we heard the fire engines arriving and the children screaming,” said Abdessalam Merrah, 41, who lives nearby.“We helped as much as we c