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Heatwave kills 19 people in Canada

Children cool off in water fountains at the Place des Arts in Montreal, Canada on a hot summer day July 3, 2018

A heatwave in Quebec has killed at least 19 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, health officials said Wednesday.

Twelve of the dead were reported in the eastern province's capital Montreal, said regional public health director Mylene Drouin.

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