Foreign media: European heat waves are unbearable, in Spain Portugal, which has caused more than 1,500 people to die

Recently, there are many high -temperature weather attacks in Western European countries, and the number of people who have died due to high temperatures have been reported. According to Reuters on the 19th, Graca Freitas, the Minister of Health, Portugal, said that more than 1,000 people have died of heat waves as of now.

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The US Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) quoted information on the Ministry of Health of Spain that from July 10 to July 18, the death of at least 510 people in Spain was related to high temperature. Spanish officials said 273 of them were reported on Friday. Local officials in Portugal stated that from July 7 to July 17, Portugal recorded 659 deaths related to high temperature.

The report also said that in France, Spain and Portugal, wildfire had burned tens of thousands of acres of land, and thousands of firefighters encountered difficulties when controlling forest fires. The fire has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate into a safe zone, and at the same time, extreme high temperatures are raging in these areas.

In southern France, the over -fire area has exceeded 27,180 acres, and more than 14,000 people have been forced to escape. On Sunday, the French Ministry of the Internal Council issued a high -temperature red warning to 15 provinces across the country and issued an orange warning to other 51 provinces.

The report pointed out that on Sunday, the temperature in many places in France was as high as 40.8 ° C. The temperature on Monday and Tuesday is still high, but this round of high temperature weather is expected to end on Wednesday.

It is unclear that the number of deaths died in France because of the heat waves, but the Ministry of Health of France told ABC news that information about the number of casualties will be announced at the end of the month.

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