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More than 100 die in Pakistan heat wave
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-27 16:43
More than a week of sweltering heat has left more than 100 people dead in
Pakistan, many of them in the country's eastern Punjab province, officials said
Sunday.
Temperatures have soared up to 122 degrees in some parts of Punjab, and in
the capital Islamabad Saturday was the hottest day in 11 years with 113 degree
temperatures, said Imran Siddiqi, an official at the Pakistan Meteorological
Department.
Pakistani nurses attend Gul Mohammad, who is
suffering from heat stroke in the emergency ward of a local hospital in
Multan, Pakistan, Sunday, June 26, 2005.
[AP] | Since the heat wave began more than a week ago, 105 people have died in
Punjab, said Javed Asghar, a health ministry official in the province's capital
of Lahore. Sunstroke, dehydration and food poisoning have caused most of the
deaths, he said.
At least 19 deaths have been reported in the southern Sindh, southwestern
Baluchistan and North West Frontier provinces in recent days.
In the neighboring countries of India and Bangladesh, a heat wave has left
more than 400 dead in the past two months.
Siddiqi said monsoon rains likely later this week are expected to break the
hot spell in various parts of Pakistan.
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