Radu Marinas
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/ 24 July 2007

Heatwave, fires wreak havoc in Europe

Twelve Romanians died and firefighters, soldiers and volunteers battled wildfires across south-eastern Europe on Tuesday as a heatwave broke temperature records across the Balkans. There was a blackout in many parts of Macedonia and some parts of Albania and northern Greece. In Romania, new deaths pushed the toll from the heatwave up to 30.