Algeria fears more than 1,000 dead in quake

It was a scene from hell: after a massive quake tore through the earth, the desperate cries of women mingled with the harsh wail of ambulance sirens. Blocks of buildings lay in ruins.

Countless bodies were trapped under the wreckage of Algeria’s earthquake where the death toll tonight climbed inexorably toward 1,000 with more than 5,000 injured.