Child, four, dies as 12 red alerts issued and heatwave spreads

Child, four, dies as 12 red alerts issued and heatwave spreads

A boy has died from heatstroke in Italy in a deadly European heatwave as wildfires in Spain threaten a UNESCO site and French cities hit record temperatures. The four-year-old boy was on holiday with his parents in Olmedo in the northwest of Sardinia.

It is thought that the child left the house they were staying at before they realised he was missing on Monday.

His parents found him unconscious in the family car, and he was then airlifted to hospital in Rome but died of irreversible brain damage, the hospital confirmed.

The heatwave gripping parts of Europe sent temperatures over 40C in southern France and the Western Balkans on Monday, fuelling wildfires, triggering top-level weather alerts and forcing evacuations in sev