MADRID, Aug 13 (AFP): Three men died and thousands were forced from their homes on Tuesday as wildfires fuelled by a heatwave scorched southern Europe.
Heat alerts were issued in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal and the Balkans, with temperatures expected to soar above 40C.
The heatwave is another sign of climate change, which is fuelling longer, more intense and increasingly frequent bouts of extreme heat.
"Thanks to climate change, we now live in a significantly warmer world," Akshay Deoras, a research scientist at the meteorology department in Britain's University of Reading told AFP, adding that "many still underestimate the danger".
An employee of a Spanish equestrian centre died from his injuries in Tres Cantos, a wealthy suburb north of Madrid, officials said-reportedly as he tried to save horses.
Later, officials in Castile and Leon in northwestern Spain confirmed another man had been killed while fighting fires.
And a soldier in the Balkan country of Montenegro died and another was seriously injured when their water tanker overturned while fighting wildfires in the hills north of the capital, Podgorica.
Three persons killed in European wildfires
FE Team | Published: August 13, 2025 21:42:05
Three persons killed in European wildfires
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