Two children were found dead in a car in France on Monday, believed casualties of a heatwave piling record temperatures and health warnings across much of Europe. The youngsters, aged two and four, were found in their family car in a residential parking lot in the southern town of Carpentras, where local authorities said they believed the heatwave was the most likely reason for the deaths.

Europeans are bracing for a week of soaring temperatures, sweltering in a heatwave with daytime highs above 40 degrees.

Two children were found dead in a car in southeast France on Monday as the country faced the hottest day of a brutal heatwave that is forecast to last until the end of the week.…