Algeria has blamed Morocco and Israel for deadly forest fires that killed dozens of people in the country.
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In a statement, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has said most of the fires that have burned through the mountainous Berber region of the North African country were the result of arson, reported the AFP.
"The incessant hostile acts carried out by Morocco against Algeria have necessitated the review of relations between the two countries," the presidency statement said.
It said there would also be an "intensification of security controls on the western borders" with Morocco.
According to the statement, officials have arrested suspects from two organizations designated as terrorist groups it said were receiving support from Israel and Morocco, according to a report in The Times of Israel.
Algerian authorities have blamed the fires on the MAK independence movement of the mainly Berber region of Kabylie, which extends along the Mediterranean coast east of the capital Algiers. The MAK denied that it was involved in the fires.
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Meanwhile, 61 people have been arrested in Algeria over the lynching and burning of a man falsely accused of arson, with some of those detained confessing to being members of MAK.
This article was first published by i24NEWS.
