Heatwave in Spain claims third victim
The killer Spanish heatwave has claimed the lives of another two people.
The number of known heat-related fatalities rose to three yesterday after a middle-aged man was found lying in the street in Barcelona bleeding from the mouth.
Civil Protection workers covering the area tweeted: “Medical response workers inform us a man has died in Barcelona from heatstroke.”
He was pronounced dead after being rushed to the city’s Clinic Hospital as temperatures in the Catalan capital neared 38C.
Around the same time a 78-year-old man was rushed unconscious to hospital in Murcia in south-east Spain.
He was working on his orchard at a country property near the provincial capital when he collapsed.
A 48-year-old highway maintenance worker became Spain’s first heatwave-related victim on Wednesday when he died in hospital in Murcia after collapsing as he worked on a new motorway.
Authorities also revealed yesterday a 55-year-old man had been admitted to intensive care after collapsing from the heat in the village of Beniajan, also in Murcia.
In Portugal, up to 300 firefighters tackled a raging wildfire near the village of Monchique, close to the Algarve.