Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Three Algerian parents on fire in protest at their working situation

Algiers. .- Three men, aged between 35 and 43 years and parents today their bodies doused with petrol and set on fire in Algeria to protest against their working situation, reported the online edition of daily El Watan. The incident occurred in the town of Isseers, in the province of Boumerdes in Algeria's Kabylie in front of the office management of a company dedicated to the manufacture of cotton and they had worked the three bombers, who were dismissed 2006.

Security officers who were at the scene help the three men were taken to a hospital in the nearby town of Bordj Menaiel, according to that source. The three parents and two dozen former employees of the same company, have held a protest in the same place this week to ask to be reinstated.

Since mid-January, there have been more than 25 similar cases between these two women in different regions of Algeria, resulting in five people died after catching fire. The people who blew themselves up with fire and that complaint was the difficult social conditions they live, as unemployment and homelessness.

The first of these cases occurred in the town of Boukhadra in Tebessa province, on 12 January, when MOHC Bouterfif body was sprayed with petrol and set himself on fire, inflicting serious burns that caused her death a few days later in a hospital.

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