President Tebboune decided to allocate a grant of 10 million centimes (about 8,000 dollars) for the families of the victims of the bus accident. Algerian Interior Minister Ibrahim Murad stated in a press release that the details of the grant disbursement will be announced later in an official statement, according to Algeria’s ‘An-Nahar’.
The Algerian Civil Protection announced on Saturday morning that 18 people died and 24 others were injured following a passenger bus accident in 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 first 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 explained that the accident occurred around 17:45, as the bus fell into the valley stream.
