France has warned that the death toll will rise as a result of the record heatwave in Europe. 

So far, more than 1,000 deaths have been reported during the heatwave.

The French public health agency said most of the heat-related fatalities involved older people, warning that the number was expected to rise as more information became available about deaths in residential care and private homes.

"Right now 150 million people are living under ​extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling," World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X.