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Saturday 10 July 1999 00:02 BST
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A ROMANIAN prisoner died from the heat yesteday after he was ordered to cut hay as part of his jail duties.

The 36-year-old collapsed as temperatures soared into the 90s in the north-eastern town of Bacau.

Fish farms on the shallow Sea of Azov in southern Ukraine reported mass deaths from a dearth of oxygen, including some sought-after species of sturgeon.

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