Algeria to offer aid to earthquake victims

A special joint commission started evaluating damage caused by Wednesday’s earthquake which hit the province of Blida. Authorities will offer aid to victims.

The commission includes representatives of municipal technical departments, the Civil Protection and urbanization department. They went to the earthquake place and submitted a report to the National Body of Housing Technical Control. It will assign representatives to evaluate damage and determine aid value.

Bouinane’s mayor said 40 houses in the municipality were damaged by the earthquake.

“The aid will depend on a report due to be prepared by the National Body of Housing Technical Control. It receives technical information from the provincial department before the final report,” he told Echorouk on the phone.

“Bouinane benefited from 300 aids while Hamam Melouane municipality which was hit the most by the earthquake got 600 aids. Chebli received 100 aids. One aid is estimated at 70 million centimes,” he added.

Mohamed Hamdache, a researcher in geophysics said Wednesday’s earthquake was followed by 10 secondary tremors.