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Heatwave in southeast Europe continues to wreak havoc

45 killed: Hundreds hospitalised: Bushfires
ATHENS. July 7: A brief dip in temperatures and strong winds today brought some relief from a heat wave which scorched southeastern Europe, leaving at least 45 people dead so far and sending hundreds to hospitals, reports AP.
But the dry winds also fanned hundreds of fires around the region, and meteorologists predicted temperatures will surpass 40 degrees Celsius again over the weekend, with a second wave of hot air heading north from the Sahara desert.
Temperatures, which had stood at 45 C around southeastern Europe for days, dipped by several degrees In most areas on Friday. The heat wave has claimed about 50 lives so far In the region since the beginning of the week.
“In the Balkans and In Italy, (temperatures) have receded today, but It looks like they will go up In the southern Balkans on Sunday by about two degrees." said Greek meteorologist Theodoros Kolldas. Thermometers should hit 40 C to 41 C again tn the next few days in southeastern Europe, he added.
But there was little change In Turkey, where temperatures continued to hover at around 43 degrees Celsius in parts of the country. Six people reportedly died of heart attacks triggered by the heat today, the private news channel NTV said.
To the north In Romania, five more people died of heart attacks and strokes due to the high temperature on Thursday, bringing the total number of heat-related deaths in the country since the beginning of the week to 14.
The heat was so Intense that it set off emergency systems in Romania's nuclear power plant, which was shut down, a plant statement said Friday. The Vlant stopped operating late hursday after temperatures inside the building rose to 70 degrees Celsius, setting off
sprinklers. Nobody was injured and the plant was not damaged. the statement said.
Temperatures in Romania have reached 44 degrees Celsius over the last week, touching off hundreds of fires. The heat receded to 38 C but was expected to rise steadily again over the weekend to 40 C.
In Greece, temperatures fell by about 7 degrees Celsius to settle at around 38 C. but were expected to reach 41 C by the end of the weekend. Despite the drop in temperature, strong dry winds fueled more than 100 forest and bush fires around the country from Thursday.
The largest fire consumed an estimated 1.600 hectares of forest on the Aegean island of Samos, where several homes were evacuated and about 400 firefighters were battling the flames, authorities said.
Dozens of aircraft and hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and civilian volunteers also battled large blazes on the nearby island of Chios, two in the Peloponnese and another near Marathon, about 40 kilometres east of Athens.
Fires also burned In Italy, where a 57-year-old farmer died after being engulfed by flames while trying to extinguish a field near L'Aquila, 110 kilometers northeast of Rome.