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A cleaner dies in a heat wave in Barcelona

Barcelona City Council has confirmed the incident, but it cannot yet be ascertained that the death was caused by the heat.

A cleaning worker in Barcelona has died after finishing his day in a heat wave. Parcelona City Council has confirmed the incident, although it has not yet been confirmed that the death was caused by the heat.

The accident occurred on Saturday night in the Raval district of Barcelona, during the hottest hours of the afternoon, after returning home from a "hard" day.  The worker died at his home shortly after the end of the day.

This is yet another example of the heat wave on the entire peninsula.

Heat wave

This Sunday is the highest temperatures of the weekend.

The Spanish Ministry of Health foresees on its map a high level of health risk in the interior of Pontevedra, south-west of Asturias, Cantabrian Range and European Mountains, Liébana, central and Villaverde, Cantabria, Llanada Alavesa, Cantábrica, central and Ribera del Ebro in Navarre, and in La Rioja and Zaragoza.

For this reason, all communities have several warnings activated, in twelve of them orange level.

Orange warnings

A total of 22 cities have orange warning activated throughout the state: Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén and Sevilla (Andalusia); Huesca and Zaragoza (Aragón); Ciudad Real y Toledo (Castilla-La Mancha); Girona, Lleida and Tarragona (Catalonia); Badajoz and Cáceres (Extremadura); Metropolitana and Henares (Spain).

 

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