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ANKARA, July 14 (AFP) - Extreme temperatures have claimed five lives in Turkey, taking the toll to 23 dead in two weeks, officials said Friday. Fires fueled by the high temperatures have burnt nearly 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of land across the country. In the western town of Nazilli, an elderly man suffered a heat-triggered brain hemorrhage as temperatures hit 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit), the highest in the past century in the region, the Anatolia news agency reported. Heat also claimed the life of a teenager working in a field near the northwestern town of Inegol, a 40-year-old man in the Aegean city of Izmir and a 40-year-old woman in Idil town in the southeast, Anatolia said. Also, a 48-year-old worker died of a heart attack while fighting a fire in the western province of Manisa. Thursday's heat, which reached 46 degrees Celsius in some areas and exceeded 40 degrees Celsius in much of Turkey, was blamed for 58 fires that damaged more than 2,900 hectares across the country, the forestry ministry said. One blaze, which burnt more than 1,000 hectares of forest, destroying a school and four houses in the western district of Buldan, was still out of control Friday, according to the ministry statement. In Soma, Manisa province, three threatened villages were evacuated Thursday. The heat has damaged power substations causing electricity cuts in several cities, including the capital Ankara. |
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