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Wildfires scorch southern Europe amid record heatwave | South China Morning Post

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Southern Europe has been hit by a week-long heatwave, triggering dozens of wildfires and causing hundreds of heat-related deaths. Thousands of firefighters were deployed to battle forest fires across Spain, Greece, Portugal and France. As of July 17, 2022, 659 people in Portugal, mostly elderly, died in the past wee…

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