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(FILES) An elderly person walks in the shade of an empty street of Montelimar, southeastern France on August 22, 2023. More than 5,000 people died due to heat in France during the summer of 2023, marked by later-than-normal heatwaves, the public health agency announced on February 8, 2024. As always, most deaths were among the elderly. Over the summer as a whole, some 3,700 heat-related deaths occurred among the over-75s. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/JEFF PACHOUD)