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In France, a funeral home is overwhelmed as the heatwave’s death toll rises

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An employee at Orly International Funeral Home checks coffins as the facility reaches full capacity amid a heatwave that has caused about 1,000 excess deaths in France, in Orly, France, June 29, 2026. REUTERS/Alice Sacco

Undertaker Zouhaier Hertelli is receiving panicked calls from families, retirement homes, and even the police desperately trying to find space in refrigerated mortuary storage for people who died Read More

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