Seven people died after a fire tore through a tourism complex at a beach resort on the outskirts of the Algerian capital today, the civil defense service said

The Algerian Civil Defense Service said that seven people died and one person was wounded after a fire tore through a tourism complex at a beach resort on the outskirts of the Algerian capital.

The fire erupted around 2:30 am at a bungalow in the Azur complex in the beach resort of Zeralda, official news agency APS quoted the Civil Defense Service as saying.

There were no immediate details on the identities of the victims or the cause of the blaze, which firefighters extinguished at around 4:00 am.