49 people drowned in Russia to escape the heat

The Ministry of Emergency Response of Russia announced today (Sunday) that 49 people, including 7 children, drowned across the country yesterday (Saturday) and the reason for this was the arrival of a heat wave in Russia. has been.

According to Asharq Al-Awsat report, this ministry announced through the Telegram application: 65 incidents have been registered in the country’s waters in the last 24 hours and 49 people died. In this regard, the Russian intelligence agency reported that this number is about 10 more than the number of people who died due to drowning on the same day last year.

During the past week, Russian citizens experienced some of the hottest weather in the country in more than a century, with Moscow breaking the record set in 1917 and the world’s largest cities seeing temperatures well above 35 degrees Celsius. They were. The Russian Meteorological Organization announced on its website on Friday that the temperature is expected to rise in the southern European regions of Russia at the beginning of the week, and the temperature will reach more than 40 degrees in some places.

Translator: Mina Azimi