An earthquake has hit the town of Laalam in north-east Algeria, killing three children and a woman and injuring 68 people, Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and local officials said Tuesday.
A radio journalist in Bejaia, the administrative centre of the Petite Kabylie part of the Kabylie region where people felt the first shock from 8:44 pm (1944 GMT) on Monday, reported those killed were a woman of 36 and children aged five, nine and 13.
Of 68 people from Laalam, in the foothills of the Babor mountains, who were admitted to hospital for treatment during the night, all but five were able to leave later, Ouyahia said, but 38 houses have collapsed.
"The situation has been mastered" in the isolated, poverty-stricken region where the earthquake struck and was followed by a series of aftershocks, about 320 kilometres (200 miles) east of Algiers, the prime minister told a news briefing in the capital.
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