Extreme heat kills at least 13 in US | the world

The heat wave is hitting the southern United States hard, especially Texas and Louisiana, where temperatures often exceed 40°C, and experts point to the role of global warming.

“Ten residents of our district died due to the heat and an 11th person, who lived in a neighboring district, but was taken to one of our hospitals and died,” a district spokesman told AFP on Friday. Webb’s Texan, located. On the edge of Mexico.

Last week, according to local authorities, a teenager lost consciousness and then spent his life frolicking in Big Bend’s nature park under mercury of 48 degrees Celsius.

Amidst the heat wave, a 62-year-old woman was also found dead in Louisiana, where a storm left thousands of families without power and therefore without access to air conditioning. “His death was heat-related,” the US Department of Health said.

In Mexico, more than 100 people died between June 12 and 25 due to an extreme heat wave that hit the desert north of the border with the United States and the capital, the Secretariat (Ministry) of Health.

To the north of the continent, Canada was still dealing with wildfires on Friday that led to unprecedented episodes of air pollution in major cities in Quebec and Ontario.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires continued into the South, Midwest and the US East Coast, where a total of 120 million people are currently experiencing an episode of air pollution, according to local officials.

As of Friday, air quality in cities like New York or Philadelphia was deemed unhealthy, according to Airnow, a government site that rates air quality in the country.

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