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| 2003/08/02 |
Heatwave claims three lives in Spain
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03:14:25 �.�
Madrid, Aug 2 - A Spanish man has died from heatstroke in the south of the country, bringing to the death toll from a heatwave to three, national radio reported Saturday, as thousands fled homes threatened by wildfires.
A 36-year-old man died in the southern Spanish city of Grenada after being admitted to hospital with heatstroke on Friday, the hottest day yet in a summer marked by sweltering climes.
Friday was the hottest day in Madrid since a historic high of 1993, with temperatures reaching 41 degrees Celsius (106 degrees fahrenheit).
Seville recorded a sweltering 48 degrees, and in Cordoba it was 46 degrees.
In the capital Madrid over a hundred mainly elderly people were admitted to hospital after fainting or suffering from dehydration.
Two other people, a 76-year-old woman from Cordoba and a middle-aged man from Seville, both in the south of Spain, died on Friday because of the heat.
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