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The firefighters announced Tuesday the discovery of two bodies after a fire in the province of Léida in Catalonia, in northeast Spain, in the grip of hot weather.
(Keystone-ATS) “Two people were found dead by firefighters” near the city of Coscó, the fire and emergency services said in a statement.
The president of the regional government of Catalonia, Salvador Illa, expressed in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday his “dismay” on the social network X.
A few hours earlier, still in Catalonia, the police had reported the death of a two -year -old boy who had been left for several hours in a car parked in full sun, in the city of Valls, north of Tarragona.
Catalan authorities confined some 14,000 people on Tuesday due to this deadly fire and another, who declared themselves almost simultaneously in the province of Léida.
The AEMET, the Spanish Meteorological Agency, announced the same day that the country had just known the hottest June ever recorded in its history, with an average temperature of 23.6 ° C, 0.8 ° C to the previous record set in 2017.
