Bangladesh, July 13 -- Europe is facing one of the deadliest heatwaves in its modern history, with official mortality monitoring data indicating that more than 10,000 excess deaths were recorded during the peak of last months extreme temperatures. The unprecedented heat has swept across much of Western Europe, shattering temperature records, fueling destructive wildfires, straining public infrastructure, and exposing the growing human cost of increasingly frequent climate extremes.

According to mortality figures compiled by EuroMOMO, a European mortality monitoring network supported by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 10,650 excess deaths were recorded du...