France’s longest river has been reduced to a sandbank as deadly temperatures have soared across Western Europe amid a record-breaking heatwave.
As Europe experienced its most severe ever recorded heatwave in June, drought conditions are worsening in France as shocking images show a completely barren Loire River in Montjean-sur-Loire.
The dry river, which is 625 miles long, has been transformed into a desert-like landscape with only stagnant puddles that remain.
The Doubs river in the Maisons-du-Bois-Lièvremont commune is also devoid of water as a result of the blistering conditions.
The extreme temperatures have shut schools, knocked out power to tens of thousands of households and has claimed
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