Floods kill three in Britain

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LONDON, June 26 (AFP): Torrential downpours around Britain left three dead and hundreds stranded Monday as storms continued to batter Russia and a heatwave in southern Europe led to further deaths and sparked fires.
Several hours of effort from rescuers including police divers was not enough to save a 28-year-old man in Hull, northwest England, who died after becoming trapped while trying to clear a flooded drain.
Local police in nearby Sheffield said later they had recovered the body of an unidentified young man, though his body was found downstream from where a teenage boy was earlier reported to have been swept up by the floods.