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Europe's heatwave last summer killed more than 61,000 people, study finds

A man uses a fan to cool off in a park in central Madrid during last summer's heatwave, on 2 August 2022. © AFP - THOMAS COEX

New research estimates that more than 61,000 people died as a result of soaring temperatures in 2022, Europe's hottest summer on record. France was among the worst-hit countries, with nearly 5,000 heat-related deaths.

Public health experts at the the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and the French National Institute of Health compared mortality figures from 35 countries across Europe against last year's record-breaking temperatures.

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