At least 69 people have died in Canada during a record-breaking 47.9 degree-heatwave

Canada set a new all-time high-temperature record on Monday of 47.9 degrees Celsius in Lytton in British Columbia - and forecasters are expecting the record to break again on Tuesday.

A man cools off in the Salmon Street springs fountain in Portland, Oregon on June 28, 2021 Source: AFP

At least 69 people in the Vancouver area have died in a record-smashing heatwave engulfing western Canada and the US Pacific Northwest, police have said.

Most of the dead in the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Surrey over the past 24 hours were elderly or people with underlying health conditions, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said.

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