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At Least 41 People Die In Western US Heatwave
A relentless heatwave has killed at least 41 people in the western United States, including 21 illegal immigrants trying to cross from Mexico, since the start of July, officials said Monday. Border patrol officials Arizona said 21 immigrants trying to cross the US-Mexico border had died, while police in Phoenix said the heat had also claimed the lived of 20 people in that city, most of them homeless. "Summer temperatures in the desert along the border can reach 120 degrees (49 degrees Celsius)," Rob Daniels of US Customs and Border Protection's Tucson office told AFP. "People can't carry the amount of water needed to survive arduous crossings in rugged terrain," he said, adding that 160 people had died trying to cross the sweltering desert border since October 1. In Phoenix, Arizona's largest city, temperatures of up to 46 degrees Celsius (115 Fahrenheit) have killed at 20 people since the start of the month, police confirmed. Aid worker Stephanie Farwig of the Phoenix Rescue Mission, which runs a shelter in Phoenix, said homeless people and transients exposed to the elements in were the worst hit by the relentless heatwave that started in early July. "They don't have the protection from the sun nor the liquids that they need and when the temperature is 115 degrees, the pavement is 130 degrees and people's feet are burned even through their shoes," she told AFP earlier. Perspiration in the soaring temperatures quickly dehydrates the body and many homeless people cannot find taps from which to drink or afford bottled drinks, Farwig said. While each summer claims a few lives of homeless people in the US west, this year has been exceptional, Farwig said. All rights reserved. � 2005 Agence France-Presse. Sections of the information displayed on this page (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the content of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presse. Related Links TerraDaily Search TerraDaily Subscribe To TerraDaily Express 
Drought Sparks Rationing, Worries In EU
Paris, France (UPI) July 20, 2005After wildfires and heat-induced health problems, Europe's blazing summer temperatures are sparking a new concern: Drought, and chances that sparse rainfall may severely shrink the region's agricultural output.
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