Europe's deadly heatwave broke June temperature records in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands on Friday. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing BBC News.

Germany's highest ever temperature of 41.3C was recorded provisionally in the south-western city of Saarbrücken. France endured its hottest temperatures three days in a row, but the heatwave has peaked. Health Minister Stéphanie Rist expressed concern about "emergence of deaths at home".

World Meteorological Organization spokeswoman Clare Nullis warned of "major impacts" to health, ecosystems, agriculture and labour, saying: "We need to get used to it, unfortunately."

In Belgium, 40C was recorded in Kleine Brogel. A top temperature of 39.4C was recorded in the southern Dutch province of Limburg. In the UK, a provisional June record of 37.1C was recorded at Cavendish in Suffolk.

At least 150 million people across Europe faced temperatures higher than 35C on Friday, according to AFP. Czech meteorologists believe a 2012 record of 40.4C could be broken on Saturday, while Austrian forecasters expect the national record to fall on Sunday. Balkan countries are also seeing extreme heat, with up to 39C forecast in Serbia.

In Switzerland, the Beznau nuclear power plant took both reactors off grid because the River Aare reached 25C, considered too high to cool the reactors.

Scientists at World Weather Attribution said temperatures in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and southern England are 5–12°C above seasonal averages. They found that June is warming faster than any other month and the current heatwave is "the most severe ever recorded".

Climate change is driving up temperatures worldwide, but especially in Europe. It is the fastest warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to Copernicus.

A Eurostar train from Cologne to Paris broke down east of Brussels with about 400 people on board. Three passengers were treated in hospital.

Health fears led to the cancellation of two big Paris events at the weekend. Saturday's Paris Pride march was rescheduled to September. The Solidays music festival was also postponed. The Diamond League athletics meeting will go ahead on Sunday with a later start.

In the Netherlands, the Defqon.1 music festival was cancelled due to a code red warning. Numerous events were also cancelled in Germany, including the Hamburg Half Marathon.

The French health minister warned of additional deaths. An emergency plan was put in place for all hospitals in the Paris region. In Marseille, an 18-month-old child died from hyperthermia in a car. In Paris, a three-year-old became trapped in a car, and two young children died in a car in Carpentras.

The number of drowning deaths in France since the heatwave began has risen to 55. An estimated two-thirds had been swimming in unsupervised areas.

Spain's MoMo monitoring system counted 327 heat-related deaths between Sunday and Thursday, most in the past two days.