France records 1,000 excess deaths during European heatwave as boys, 2 & 4, named after ‘mum forgot them in 70C car’

FRANCE has recorded 1,000 more deaths than usual as the country faced the worst of the European heatwave this week. Two brothers, aged two and four, who were among the first fatalities have been named as Kassim Benouali and Sadek. The boys suffered cardiac arrests after they were trapped inside a car in which temperatures may have reached...