Over 10,000 victims from Europe's heat wave

According to European mortality monitors, supported by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organisation (OBSH), over 9,000 of the victims were persons over 65 years old, Reuters reports.

Recorded record temperatures in some European countries have caused serious consequences, while preliminary estimates in Belgium, Britain, France and Spain show that heat waves have caused thousands of additional deaths.

Meanwhile, the group of scientists World Weather Attribution estimates that the extreme heat waves of the month June would have been almost impossible” without the impact of climate change.