Death toll by Heat Waves steps up to 60 in Pakistan
'Pakistan Times' National News Desk

ISLAMABAD: Death toll by sizzling heat wave sweeping across central and southern Pakistan has reportedly crossed the digit of 60, with the sizzling weather likely to persist in the coming days, officials said Saturday.

Deaths were mainly reported in Southern Sukkar, Sibbi, Jacobabad and Kasur cities, where temperature has been hovering between 46 and 50 degrees Celsius for the past several days, an official at Metrological department, Shehzad Tanverm said.

According to media reports over a hundred, mostly children and women have been hospitalized due to excessive heat.

The latest fatalities from the scorching heat have taken the death toll in last two months to at least 150. In 2003, a heat wave killed more than 230 Pakistanis.

And a report from Rahim Yar Khan says that at least 17 people were killed and several fainted due to sizzling heat in various parts of Rahim Yar Khan in Punjab.

Some 13 people died of heat stroke in villages of greater Chaulistan, out of which six deceased were identified as Jamaluddin, Dodal Mahar, Noor Muhammad, Iqbal, Karim Bux and Muhammad Rajar, said an officer of Chaulistan Development Authority.

Four persons including a woman died due to the same reason in Thul Hamza area in Liaqatpur Tehsil of Rahim Yar Khan.●