Algiers - At least 579 people were killed and 316 injured in violent storms which lashed Algeria at the weekend, officials said yesterday, amid mounting anger at the government's handling of the crisis.
According to the new death toll, 538 of the victims were killed in Algiers, the majority of them in the working-class Bab El Oued district of the capital which was engulfed by a mudslide on Saturday. Officials feared still higher tolls.
