The two children died after arriving at the hospital The fire caused injuries ranging from moderate to severe

A tragic fire broke out inside a residential apartment in Oran Province in northwestern Algeria, leaving behind a human tragedy in which two children lost their lives and nine other people suffered varying degrees of suffocation injuries, amid shock and grief among residents.

According to a statement issued by the Algerian Civil Protection on its official Facebook page, the two children, aged four and seven, were taken to the hospital in critical condition shortly after midnight after suffering severe suffocation due to thick smoke rising from the fire, along with several other injured individuals.

Despite intensive medical efforts and resuscitation attempts, their critical condition did not last long, and they were pronounced dead a few hours after arriving at the hospital, deepening the scale of the tragedy.

Meanwhile, the nine other injured individuals received first aid at the scene before being transferred to the hospital for further treatment, where their conditions ranged from mild suffocation to severe cases, under continuous medical monitoring.

A 5-storey building

Civil Protection teams had intervened around midnight on Wednesday/Thursday to extinguish the fire that broke out inside an apartment located on the first floor of a five-storey residential building in the “Lasira 2500 Housing” district in the municipality and district of Oued Tlelat.

Firefighting teams managed to control the flames and prevent them from spreading to the rest of the building, although the heavy smoke caused cases of suffocation among several residents who were treated on site.