The heat remained intense across central and eastern Europe, with the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland hit hard as temperatures soared and records fell. At least 191 million Europeans were expected to face temperatures above 35C during the day, according to AFP estimates.The World Health Organization said it had recorded more than 1,300 excess deaths in Europe since June 21. Overall, some 381 million Europeans were set to see temperatures exceed 30C, according to analysis based on forecasts from the German Meteorological Service and population data.Almost all of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic were above 35C, along with around 42 million people in Germany, while Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Austria and western Ukraine also faced extreme heat. 'Not a fiasco'"Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X. Storms brought some respite overnight, particularly in France after several days of temperatures close to 40C. But they also caused damage, as a man died near Brussels when a tree fell on his car, local media reported. In France, the highest-level heat alerts were expected to ease on Sunday evening, although millions continued to endure sweltering conditions.
Europe swelters as heatwave moves east, excess deaths rise
Europe's deadly heatwave pushed east Sunday with hundreds of millions still sweltering across the continent despite fleeting relief from overnight storms, notably in France and Belgium.
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