Algeria: nine dead in a gas explosion

Nine people died and sixteen were injured on Thursday (April 7th) in a violent gas explosion that caused the collapse of a three-story dwelling in Bordj Bou Arreridj, eastern Algeria, national television said. .

Rescuers were looking for possible additional victims under the rubble of this house, blown up by the explosion, local authorities said, adding that neighboring houses had been damaged.

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The explosion, which occurred in the morning,

, according to the same source.

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune sent a message of condolence to the families of the victims of this

, said television.

In early February, eight people, including three children, burned to death in the nearby town of Sétif, in a fire caused by a gas explosion in a house.

At the end of 2020, five people were killed and 16 injured in western Algeria in the explosion of a gas pipeline damaged during work carried out by a nearby contractor.