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| | Guardian | Algerian floods toll could exceed 1,000 |
 | | Twelve bodies were pulled from the wreckage of Oued Koriche market, in the working-class district of Bab el Oued, the centre of the catastrophe, overnight Wednesday, civil defence officials said. |
 | | It was Algeria's worst natural disaster since an earthquake devastated the western city of Chlef, formerly El Asnam, killing 1,500, in 1981. |
 | | The government has declared at least 155 buildings in Bab el Oued unsafe and ordered their evacuation, the news agency APS said. |
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