U.S. heatwave toll

Press, 20 October 1980, Page 7

U.S. heatwave toll

The recent summer heatwave in the southern and central United States caused 1265 deaths and almost $2O billion damage, according to an official report in Washington. The toll was one of the three highest for a heatwave in this century, the National Administration of Oceans and Atmosphere said. Almost all the victims were bld people whose houses were not air-con-ditioned. In' figuring the heatwave’s cost, the authorities took into account increased use of electricity, damage to crops, livestock and roads, and increased water use. — Washington. Guerrilla chief shot

A prominent leader of an anti-British. guerrilla group jn Northern Ireland and one Of his aides have been shot dead in Belfast. Police sources said two gunmen burst into the house of Ronald Bunting, aged 32, shortly before 4 ajn., killing him and Noel Lyttle, aged 45, and seriously wounding Sjlr ‘Buh|ing’s wife Suzanne, aged 30, Mr ’Bunting . was' a founder of the Irish Republican Socialist Party, the farLeft political’ party whose guerrillaforces last year claimed. responsibility for the car bomb..murder in London bf, the ' British politician, Airey