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Spain attributes over a thousand deaths to heat in second-hottest June ever

# Spain recorded one-thousand-and-29 deaths ​attributable to heat last month. Official data shows ‌a five-day heatwave with temperatures surpassing 40-degrees Celsius made it the second-hottest June on record after the same month last year. Weather agency AEMET says average temperatures were 3.2 ​degrees higher than normal. Data on the Health ​Ministry’s daily mortality monitoring system shows this June ​had the most deaths attributed to heat since ⁠the same month in 2015.