Algeria’s General Directorate of Civil Protection has revealed the full scale of its emergency interventions following violent weather conditions that struck multiple provinces across the country.
In the capital’s Rouiba municipality, civil protection teams successfully freed a vehicle trapped by rapidly rising floodwaters, rescuing two occupants in good condition.
In Boumerdes province, search operations remain ongoing for a missing person swept away by floodwaters in the Boukeroucha neighborhood, while a trapped vehicle on National Road 05 was freed with its occupant unharmed. In Ouled Moussa, teams rescued 12 people from a bus and truck stranded in floodwater on a local road.
In Oum El Bouaghi, civil protection units pumped floodwater from homes and a restaurant, freed vehicles stuck in mud, and crucially rescued a stranded ambulance carrying a pregnant woman amid heavy hailstorms.
Constantine witnessed a partial collapse of an exterior wall at Diar Rahma with no casualties reported, while teams intervened to pump water from a flooded ground-floor apartment. Similar operations were conducted in Batna and Blida provinces.
