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Environment
Simon Speakman Cordall

Residents lucky to be alive as wildfires rip through Tunisia, Algeria

Residents of Maloula, Tunisia escaped with their lives as fires from nearby forests rapidly spread to their village [Simon Speakman Cordall/Al Jazeera]

Tabarka, Tunisia – First it came slowly, then the fire came very, very quickly.

In a matter of minutes, Ines recounts, it had travelled hundreds of metres. Soon, the flames were stretching as high as the trees that skirted her family’s comfortable villa in Maloula, northern Tunisia.

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