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KARACHI: The prevailing heatwave in Karachi has left over 700 people dead in last three days, as per latest figures available on Tuesday evening.
Earlier, medics battled to treat victims after a state of emergency was declared in hospitals.
In Karachi, the Met department forecasts maximum temperatures to reach as high as 43 degrees Celsius over the next 24 hours, with chances of rain-thundershower and dust storm during the evening and night.
Eight to 10 people have also died in other parts of southern Sindh, senior provincial health official Sabir Memon told AFP earlier. ”More than 450 people have died due to heat stroke in the past three days.”
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Semi Jamali, a doctor at Jinnah Hospital said they had treated about 3,000 patients suffering from heat stroke.
More than 200 of them were either received dead or died in hospital,” Jamali told AFP. Another 67 people died in another hospital, the Civil Hospital, an official there said.
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Edhi Welfare Organisation, said their two morgues in the city had received more than 400 corpses.
“More than 400 dead bodies have so far been received in our two mortuaries in past three days,” Edhi spokesperson Anwar Kazmi told AFP.
“The mortuaries have reached capacity.”
http://tribune.com.pk/story/908310/death-toll-from-deadly-heatwave-surpasses-500/