The victims — two men and a woman aged between 80 and 95 — died at their homes in the suburbs of Bordeaux, in southwestern France, on Sunday. The deaths occurred in the towns of Cenon, Saint-Médard-en-Jalles and Saint-Jean-d’Illac as temperatures exceeded 36°C across a large part of France, with some towns recording temperatures over 40 °C.
“We sadly regret three deaths of elderly people, between 80 and 95 years old,” Sophie Brocas, the state’s representative in the area, told France 3 Aquitaine on Sunday. She said emergency services were “currently attributing” the deaths to the heatwave, which is comparable in intensity to the August 2003 heatwave, one of the deadliest in European history.
