Three dead in Europe heatwave
MUCH of Europe baked in tropical temperatures that climbed as high as 40C, in an increasingly dangerous heatwave blamed for at least four deaths since Sunday.
Britain, already suffering the hottest day of the year yesterday, was braced for its hottest day on record as forecasters predicted temperatures could reach 39C in parts of England.
In Spain, a 44-year-old man died of heat exhaustion at Orense, in the northwestern region of Galicia, regional government officials said today, two days after another man died in Murcia in the south.
The other two deaths blamed on the oppressive heat were recorded in France. In the southwest Bordeaux region, where the temperature climbed to 38C, local authorities reported that two octogenarians were the victims of hyperthermia. An 85-year-old man died in hospital and a woman, 81, at her home.
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