Africa: At least 25 Algerian soldiers were killed saving residents from the wildfires ravaging mountain forests and villages east of the capital, the Algerian president announced Tuesday night as the death toll from the blazes crept up to at least 32. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune tweeted that the soldiers saved 100 citizens from the blazes in two areas of Kabyle, the region that is home to the North African nation's Berber population. Eleven soldiers were burned burned fighting the fires, four of them seriously, the Defense Ministry said. The Kabyle region, 60 miles east of Algeria’s capital of Algiers, is dotted with difficult-to-access villages and has limited water. Some villagers were fleeing, while others tried to hold back the flames themselves, using buckets, branches and rudimentary tools. The region has no water-dumping planes. The deaths and injuries Tuesday occurred around Kabyle's capital of Tizi-Ouzou, which is flanked by mountains, and in Bejaia, which borders the Mediterranean Sea.