President Tebboune decided to allocate a grant of 100 million centimes (about 8,000 dollars) to the families of the victims of the bus accident. Algerian Interior Minister Ibrahim Mourad explained in a press statement that the details of the disbursement of the grant will be revealed later in an official statement, according to the Algerian newspaper ‘Al-Nahar.’
The Algerian Civil Protection announced on Saturday morning that 18 people died and 24 others were injured following the fall of a passenger bus into the Harrach Valley in the Algerian capital. The cause of the accident was not immediately clear.
A video clip that spread on social media showed the initial moments of the accident and the intervention of citizens who threw themselves into the valley to rescue those trapped inside the bus before the civil protection elements arrived. The civil protection clarified that the accident occurred around 17:45 when the bus fell into the stream of the valley.
