More than 40 dead in Pakistani heat wave

More than 40 people have been killed across Pakistan by extremely hot weather and the searing temperatures are expected to last at least a couple more days, officials said on Tuesday.

Most of the fatalities have come in the central province of Punjab, the country’s most populous province, where temperatures soared to 48 degree Celsius (118 Fahrenheit) on Monday. Tuesday might get even hotter, a weather official said.

“Thirty people have been killed due to sun-stroke,” Punjab Health Minister Tahir Ali Javed told Reuters.

Sixty people, most of them children, had been admitted to hospitals in the province on Tuesday because of the heat, he said.

At least 12 people have died in the southern province of Sindh, district officials there said.

June and July are traditionally Pakistan’s hottest months before seasonal rain cools things off a bit before the mild autumn.

Javed said the death toll could rise as the heat wave was expected to last for another couple of days.

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