NewsWorld newsFranceEmergency services were called when the parents found the sisters, aged 15 months, dead in their beds in the town of Beuvrages, near Valenciennes, France19:04, 29 Jun 2026Updated 19:34, 29 Jun 2026Twin baby sisters, aged 15 months, have been found dead from "dehydration" in their beds - with French police investigating.‌Emergency services were called when the parents are understood to have discovered them dead. Four other children aged three, four, five and six were also found to be ill from dehydration - with one airlifted to hospital, local media reports.‌The incident happened in the town of Beuvrages, near Valenciennes, with the parents held in custody at the local police station.‌A cordon is in place outside the property while neighbours have said the family only arrived at the house around two months ago and have kept a low profile, reports RTL. It is also reported that they were not previously known to social services.The public prosecutor of Valenciennes said the twins were found "lifeless in their beds".‌An autopsy is due to be carried out on Tuesday to determine the circumstances of their deaths which will "explore in particular the possibility of dehydration due to the high temperature recorded in the room".France saw around 1,000 additional deaths last week at the height of its record-smashing heatwave, the country’s public health agency said on Sunday, as the head of the World Health Organization warned that Europe is now the fastest-warming continent and needs to do more to protect its citizens.There were more than 1,200 deaths last Wednesday, when France was sweltering under its hottest temperatures, increasing to more than 1,400 deaths on each of the two following days, Public Health France said. In April and May, before the heatwave, France’s rate of deaths was about 900 to 1,000 per day.Article continues belowThe agency concluded that France experienced a total of at least 1,000 additional deaths during those three days alone, an estimate it cautioned is likely to increase as more data is collected, including for deaths at home.The increase was sharpest in areas under red warnings of extreme heat, it said. Those warnings blanketed about three-quarters of the country at the peak of the heatwave. The agency said that 85% of the deaths involved people aged 65 and above.Funeral directors were left struggling to find space for bodies in Paris’s overwhelmed mortuaries as the temperature rose above 40C for several days.Choose Daily Mirror as a 'Preferred Source' on Google News for quick access to the news you value.‌FranceBreaking News