Heatwave causes more deaths

The death toll from Romania's heat wave rose to 15 yesterday after six more people died in the Black Sea country where temperatures hovered around 40 degrees Celsius. Meteorologists say high temperatures, which could exceed 42 degrees in the southern...

The death toll from Romania's heat wave rose to 15 yesterday after six more people died in the Black Sea country where temperatures hovered around 40 degrees Celsius.

Meteorologists say high temperatures, which could exceed 42 degrees in the southern regions on the Danube river border with Bulgaria, might last until early next week.

A previous two-week long heat wave in June claimed 30 lives, scorched thousands of hectares of farmland and plunged the country's cereal crop to a four-year record low.

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